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• A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

  Wavy Gravy

  Brother, Shoes, Giants

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• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  Wavy Gravy

  Cheer, Pain, Kids

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• You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown

  Conway Twitty

  Baby, Wire, Scare

  Song: The Clown, Album: Southern Comfort, 1982

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• There is no room in baseball for a clown.

  Chuck Dressen

  Baseball, Rooms

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• My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Democracy, World, I Realized

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• When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

  Kevin Costner

  Unique, People, Giving

  "Kevin Costner Talks HATFIELDS & McCOYS, Dramatic License in a Historical Tale, and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Laughing, Court

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

  John Leguizamo

  Class

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• I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

  Bernie Mac

  Comedian

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• For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

  Denis Lavant

  Long, Circus, Long Time

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• I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Teacher, Thinking, Class

  Interview with David Max, www.huskermax.com. April 20, 2006.

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

  George Carlin

  Class, Skills, People

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

  Elinor Smith

  Mother, Children, Needs

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• Clowns are always creepy!

  Kate Bush

  Creepy

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

  Jason Mantzoukas

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

  Paul Westerberg

  Real, Heart, Replacements

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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• Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

  Eric Davis

  People, Annoyed, Funny People

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• I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

  Matthew Settle

  Secret, Littles, Bits

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• Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Gold, Lucky

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.

  Simon Pegg

  Laughter, Kids, School

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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