Circus Quotes - Page 8

• I lurve you, circus freak," Cabel says. It almost hurts to hear him say that. I lurve you, too, you big lumpy monster man," Janie says. That hurts even more to say.

  Lisa McMann

  Hurt, Men, Monsters

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Gone”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Fate, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

  Mitch Glazer

  Beautiful, Kids, Boys

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mitch Glazer Talks Passion Play". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 29, 2011.

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• The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Election, Court

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• Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fun, Air, Talking

  Source: variety.com

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• It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.heyuguys.com

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• My class is not a three ring circus.

  Hetty King

  Class, Three, Rings

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• A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

  John Connally

  Chess, Tournaments

  1964 Of US political conventions. In the National Observer. Quoted in Edwin A Roberts Jr Elections 1964 (1964).

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• People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

  Mike White

  Running, Book, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

  John Simon

  Sports, Strong, Real

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• I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

  Michael Ironside

  Real, Long, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

  Tippi Hedren

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

  Tippi Hedren

  Lying, Animal, Rhetoric

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• I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Keys, Russia, Europe

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• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  Celia Imrie

  Live Life, Actors, Way

  Celia Imrie (2011). “The Happy Hoofer”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

  Toby Jones

  Running, Children, Thinking

  "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.

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• I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

  Danny Huston

  Father, Long, Suffering

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
  It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

  Eminem

  Rap, Circles, Hip Hop

  Song: If I Get Locked Up Tonight

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• We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, Elephants, Ivory

  Speech at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, on November 02, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Two, Long, People

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

  Georgie Fame

  Media, Trying, Growing

  "Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless". Interview With Dave Gelly, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2010.

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Vectors, Empty

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• The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

  Maxim Gorky

  Horse, Law, Bones

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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