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Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.
— Kevin Barry
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
— Colm Toibin
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
— James S. Coleman
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
— Twyla Tharp
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
— Jules Verne
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
— Loni Anderson
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
— Lee Trevino
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
— Jessica Brown Findlay
As a star you never know when people are really serious.
— Dirk Nowitzki
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
— Gloria Steinem
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
— Johnny Carson
Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.
— Li Jinhua
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
— George Bernard Shaw
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
— Toni Morrison
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
— Oscar Wilde
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
— Dee Dee Ramone
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
— Gene Tierney
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter F. Drucker
Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem. — Tarthang Tulku
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What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?""Be a man, I guess," Ethan said ... — Meg Wolitzer
When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
— Timothy Noah
A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.
— Emily Matchar
That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.
— Sean O'Casey
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.
— Maria Sharapova
Liv sagged against the wall. Their son was kidnapped and trained as a sex slave. Jesus, they were in serious fucking denial about his captivity.
— Pepper Winters
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
— Julio Cortazar
It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
— Brit Hume
Are you serious?""As an armadillo in a laundry mat — Penny Reid
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
— Mary Astell
As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
— K.F. Breene
Life is as serious a thing as death.
— Philip James Bailey
I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.
— Peter Dinklage
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
— Harland Williams
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
— Jonathan Franzen
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
— Albert Einstein
I had gone to Europe ... to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.
— Marian Anderson
When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.
— David A. McIntee
At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
— Saina Nehwal
We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.
— Lee Child
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
— William Collins
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
— Andy Summers
I'm as serious as a heart attack.
— Samuel L. Jackson
Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.
— Neil Bonnett
Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
— Leonard Jacobson
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
— Maureen Johnson
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
— Jean Liedloff
To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.
— Lionel Shriver
They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.
— Thomas Pynchon
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
— Charles E. Burchfield
God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
— William Friedkin
As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
— Bryan Ferry
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
— James Thurber
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
— Arthur Miller
Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits.
The two have nothing else in common. — Richelle E. Goodrich
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
— Charles Lamb
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
— Henry A. Kissinger
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
— Jules Verne
That's the Irish all over they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
— Russell Brand
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
— Peter Hammill
When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.
— James Henry Breasted
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
— Patrick Demarchelier
I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.
— Martin Henderson
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
— Werner Herzog
