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Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.
I don't know why 'Midsomer Murders' is so popular; I've asked this many times and I've asked the Germans particularly because I've become very fond of them, to be honest. And they say it's the irony, the sense of humour and so on.
The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.
When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.
I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.
I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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