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Fun Quotes

"The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

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"I'm just trying to play my best and have fun."

Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan Athlete

Fun, Play, Trying

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"But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story."

Rob Walton, Canadian Athlete

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"It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system."

Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian Athlete

Fun, Nervousness, Play, Practice

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"Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch."

Richard Krajicek, Dutch Athlete

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"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk."

John Leguizamo, Colombian Comedian

Fun, Night, Reading

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"This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun."

Chan Ho Park, Korean Athlete

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"Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

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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."

Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian Model

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"A rich man's joke is always funny."

Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

Fun, Funny, Man

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"Violence is not funny."

William Friedkin, American Director

Fun, Funny, Violence

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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."

Carl Hubbell, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Thought, Waiting

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"I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible."

Jessica Cutler, American Author

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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, Women, Forget

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"Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun."

Daniel Pinkwater, American Author

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"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer."

Lisa Leslie, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Thought, Being, Class

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"I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

"Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman."

Brendan Fraser, American Actor

"Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Fun, Funny, People, Washington

"Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny."

Candace Bushnell, American Writer

Fun, Funny, Life, People, Ego

"And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out."

Denis Norden, English Writer

Fun, Funny, Possibility, May

"I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment."

Blu Cantrell, American Musician

"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do."

Anthony Anderson, American Actor

Fun, Hollywood, Want

"It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling!"

Will Friedle, American Actor

"The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes."

Adrian Edmondson, English Actor

Fun, Jokes, Writing

"Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

Fun, Play, Want

"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

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

Fun, Funny, People

"It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak."

Brett Favre, American Athlete

"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

"It's generally more fun playing the villain."

Charlie Hunnam, English Actor

"But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun."

Ed Bradley, American Journalist

"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read."

Leo Burnett, American Businessman

"It's funny to be a critic."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

"It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want."

Trey Parker, American Artist

Fun, Funny, Comedy, Want

"It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd."

Steve Largent, American Athlete

"I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun."

Albert Finney, British Actor

"I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public."

Roland Joffe, English Director

Fun, Funny, Home, Clowns, Public

"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."

Larry Wall, Canadian Author

"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who."

Lalla Ward, English Actor

"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."

Eugene Levy, Canadian Actor

"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it."

Ethan Coen, American Director

"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

"In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band."

Matt Cameron, American Musician

"I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine."

Jim Morris, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Time, God

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

Satchel Paige, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Body

"It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play."

Steve Largent, American Athlete

"That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."

Dr. Seuss, American Writer

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