There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
Ben Schnetzer
Related Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences... SUNDAY ADELAJA When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's prio... SHERRY STRINGFIELD Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that... MALCOLM D. LEE I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo... BILLY CONNOLLY I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,... FRAN KRANZ Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching -... RAHUL DRAVID But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam... GARY BURTON It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that peop... GEMMA WARD A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can trea... DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away w... DOMINICK DUNNE There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lo... ESPERANZA SPALDING There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca... T-PAIN You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give i... DAVID RUBENSTEIN It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting t... GINA BELLMAN There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's... ROSE BYRNE Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities. ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down... ANDREW DOST I always start my breakfast out with oatmeal, because it's full of vitamin D, it's a great c... GRACIE GOLD Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's thin... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever. RON WHITE There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness,... JOE FLAHERTY It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at ... ADAM MCKAY You have a lot more freedom when you're the sidekick - you can bring a lot more of your own flav... BREE TURNER You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care o... JENNIFER LOPEZ 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Be... DALE ARCHER You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you ... AMY LANDECKER There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you... GRANT ACHATZ I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing ... DYLAN MORAN The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point. DANA BRUNETTI A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's an... DAVE GROHL The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're reall... DOMHNALL GLEESON I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with... ANDIE MACDOWELL A lot of people I guess, well, some people change when they get in spotlights and everything, but yo... LA'PORSHA RENAE When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and yo... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot a... JOELLE CARTER The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index fing... ELI MANNING Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you... CHRISTOPHER MILLER I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because i... VINCENT CASSEL They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your... STEVE EARLE In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes plac... LOUIS THEROUX I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that ... LARRY KING A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot hap... CAITLIN KITTREDGE There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of drama... NORAH JONES We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge aud... ANTHONY PADILLA Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have t... HUBERT WILLIAMS It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as mu... KRISTEN STEWART If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playi... CLINT EASTWOOD New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. ... BENJAMIN BOOKER There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a... VERNE TROYER I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi... TONY KUSHNER The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving yo... ALEX TABARROK Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. ... ADAM ANT I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody ... PATRICK NESS As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t... RALPH FIENNES When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. JEANNE MOREAU You can't take away that Liz Lemon is my boo; you can't take that away. GRIZZ CHAPMAN I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting ... ERIN O'CONNOR You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. A... DALE ARCHER They came out to take away our passing. You can take away something, but you can't take away it all. DAN SMITH When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find inter... JAMIE JOHNSON Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast you... JOE COCKER Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot o... SYLVESTER STALLONE When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic gov... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Honestly, if a girl's wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, th... KREAYSHAWN Resistence can start and happen everywhere and whenever you want. ROEM TOPATIMASANG I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he... DICK VAN DYKE There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going t... GEORGIA HOLT When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident ... CIARA In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some k... GARY GOETZMAN There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated ... NAOMI WATTS Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody doe... KIEFER SUTHERLAND There is a look and a grace and an elegance and a power that goes with diving, ... You can find powe... DENNIS TAYLOR You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From t... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER Motivations take you there. Tell yourself you are powerful enough to make it, and it will surprise y... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figur... JOHN DELANEY Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you... PAGET BREWSTER I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a trem... WILL ARNETT This is the time that counts -- you can really set yourself up. This is when you see teams start to ... DARREN MCCARTY Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the... BUTCH TRUCKS In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start sh... BEN WHISHAW And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. B... BRUCE NAUMAN Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you ... BLAKE MYCOSKIE You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his mo... WAYNE NEWTON There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take... RUSH LIMBAUGH The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provi... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices st... CHRIS KYLE There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. LISA GUERRERO You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, an... BENJAMIN WATSON There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't alw... GENE LUEN YANG
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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