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“There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.”

Knows Rooms Serious Plenty God Knows Serious Business

Author:Al Franken

“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Writing Looks Real Seems House Rooms Views Subjects Serious Small Rooms Room With A View Serious Subjects

Author:Peter York

“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

World May Problem Seems Turns Rooms Views Study Serious Civilization Solutions Universal Institutions Finals Contempt Adoption World Problems Myopia

Author:George F. Kennan

“There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.”

Play Rooms Serious Islam

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?”

People Care Film Young Rooms Issues Too Much Serious Vulnerable American Film Caring Too Much Serious Issues

Author:Haile Gerima

“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.”

Ifs Real Done Might Purpose Waiting Rooms Common Serious Constant Doing Nothing Rigor Waiting Rooms Purposelessness Rigor Mortis

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk.”

Thinking Kind Used Rooms Acting Serious Drama Be Kind Auditions Goofy Small Talk

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”

“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.”

Two Night Nations Sides President Rooms Serious Messages Standing Institutions Congress Divided Law Enforcement Clapping Unbecoming

Author:Mark Udall

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.”

“I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.”

Thinking Asks Rooms Inspire Serious Weapons Circles Plenty Activist Frank Charlie Chaplin Zappa

Author:Jello Biafra