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"It's all right; it's not so much fun any more."

"It's all right; it's not so much fun any more."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

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"Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!"

"Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!"

Michael McKean, American Actor

Fun, Quiet, Sight, Songs

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"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute."

"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute."

William Feather, American Author

Fun, Funny, Time

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"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great."

"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great."

Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian Model

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"It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same."

"It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same."

Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete

Fun, Funny, Now

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"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

Beck, American Musician

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"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."

"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."

Thomas Perry, German Musician

Fun, Job, Writing

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"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Fun, Funny, Life, Grave

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"Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards."

"Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards."

Uma Thurman, American Actress

Fun, Right, Word

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"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."

"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."

Gerard Butler, Scottish Actor

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"When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful."

"When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful."

Francois Truffaut, French Director

Fun, Funny, Humor, Success, Time

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"It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me."

"It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me."

Erik Estrada, American Actor

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"I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!"

"I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!"

Courtney Love, American Musician

Fun, Gain, Weight

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"It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game."

"It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game."

Tim Hudson, American Baseball Player

Fun, Passion, Youth

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"It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it."

"It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it."

Carl Hubbell, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Thought, Waiting

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"In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian."

"In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian."

Sugar Ray Leonard, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Hair, Italy, Kids

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"Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop."

"Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Fun, Prose, Writing

49

"Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun."

"Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun."

Karolina Kurkova, Czechoslovakian Model

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"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."

"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

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"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach."

"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach."

Michael Bloomberg, American Politician

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"It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body."

"It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body."

Satchel Paige, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Body

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"Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining."

"Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"Are we having fun yet?"

"Are we having fun yet?"

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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"It would be fun, Skulduggery nodded. I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like."

"It would be fun, Skulduggery nodded. I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like."

Derek Landy, Irish Writer

Fun, Humor, Adventure, Action, Life

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"Radical surgery is never fun."

"Radical surgery is never fun."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

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"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig."

"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig."

Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist

Fun, Funny, Cute, Fantasy

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"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"

"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"

Phil Keoghan, New Zealander Celebrity

Fun, Right, Television

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"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."

"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."

Jason Behr, American Actor

46

"For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job."

"For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job."

Helmut Jahn, German Architect

46

"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."

"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Fun, Funny, Peace, Time, Knowledge

46

"We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid."

"We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid."

James Frank, American Physicist

46

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

Billy Wilder, American Director

Fun, Funny, Truth, People

46

"That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better."

"That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

Fun, Talk, Want

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"The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write."

"The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write."

Nigel Kneale, English Writer

Fun, Normality, Now, Paradox

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"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."

"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."

Bruce McCulloch, Canadian Actor

46

"I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be."

"I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be."

Bear Bryant, American Coach

46

"I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny."

"I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny."

Mark Russell, American Writer

Fun, Funny, Jokes

46

"My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's."

"My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

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"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off."

"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Fun, Funny, Being, Cure, Nothing

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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."

"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Fun, Funny, Men, People, Action

46

"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."

"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."

Richard Russo, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, People

45

"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."

"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."

Ira Glass, American Journalist

Fun, Funny, People, Effect, Saying

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"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."

"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."

Regis Philbin, American Entertainer

45

"Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since."

"Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since."

Paul Prudhomme, American Celebrity

45

"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."

"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."

Nicolas Cage, American Actor

45

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

Andrew Jackson, American President

Fun, Nothing, Pleasure

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"We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast."

"We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast."

Mark Hoppus, American Musician

Fun, Honor, Kids, Popular

45

"If the universe is anything, it should be fun."

"If the universe is anything, it should be fun."

Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Author

Fun, Joy, Playfulness, Adventure, Wonder

45

"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."

"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."

Lisa Kudrow, American Actress

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"It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham."

"It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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