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• Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

  Alan Bennett

  Art, Voice, Sound

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Butterfly, Enough Time, Dew

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Time”

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• In education, parody is obsolete.

  Alfie Kohn

  Obsolete

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Reflection, Men

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.

  Drake

  Humble, Ems, Felons

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• We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Writing, Use

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• The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Artist, Risk

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Littles, Scandal, Embarrassed

  "Miley Cyrus photo Uproar: Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad, Hilary Duff, Nick Cannon Weigh In" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2008.

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• For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Home, Fate, Strikes

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Simple, Differences

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

  Thomas Boswell

  Skills, Sorrow, Tragedy

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

  Al Yankovic

  Decision, Taste, Personal Taste

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

  Al Yankovic

  Funny, Writing, Merit

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Clever, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Scary, Trying

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• Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

  Thomas Szasz

  Vocabulary, Expectations, Political

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.27, Syracuse University Press

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• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

  Larry McMurtry

  Self, Age, Firsts

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

  Mark Leyner

  Fun, Thinking, Interesting

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• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Literary Theory, Literature, Jargon

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• Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

  James Berardinelli

  Genre Is, Mediocrity, Guarantees

  "Robin Hood: Men in Tights (United States, 1993)". Movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

  Al Yankovic

  Guitar, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

  Peter Kreeft

  Opposites, Abortion, Use

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• My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Crazy, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

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