Parody Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• In education, parody is obsolete.

  Alfie Kohn

  Obsolete

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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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• 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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• Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

  Truman Capote

  Girl, Moving, Jagger

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• Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

  Marilyn Manson

  Self, Doe, Interest

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• If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.

  Errol Morris

  Years, People, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

  Mary Robinson

  Ideas, Fans, May

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Connections, Settling

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• I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets.

  Billy Collins

  Reading, Thinking, Numbers

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Thinking, Mash Up, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

  Leonard Cohen

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• I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.

  Pauly Shore

  Girl, Fun, Artist

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

  Lynn Austin

  Sleep, Journey, Rushing

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• One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

  Jennifer Stone

  Humor, Polemics, Thousand

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• It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

  Abigail McCarthy

  People, Religion, Today

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• At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Character, Humility

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• The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Men, Differences

  Thomas Paine (1859). “Complete Works”, p.312

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• The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

  Mason Cooley

  Museums, Style, Available

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• The neuroses parody the virtues.

  Mason Cooley

  Neurosis, Virtue

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• When fishes flew and forests walked
  And figs grew upon thorn,
  Some moment when the moon was blood
  Then surely I was born.
  With monstrous head and sickening cry
  And ears like errant wings,
  The devil's walking parody
  On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Blood, Wings

  1900 'The Donkey'.

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• Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

  Jon Landau

  Men, Self, White

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• I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.

  Bruce Campbell

  Character, Doubt, Way

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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