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    Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.

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    everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

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    HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

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    Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

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    For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

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    HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

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    Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

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    Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

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    Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

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    Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

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    Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

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    Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

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    Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

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    I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

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    I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

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    Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

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    If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

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    I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

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    I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

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    I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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    If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

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    I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

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    I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

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    If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

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    I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

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    I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

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    Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

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    I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

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    It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

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    I'm a big fan of shock value humour and I find myself being most comfortable when I make other people uncomfortable. Is that sick of me? I really like it.

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    In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

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    I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

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    Laughter is more serious than tears.

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    I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

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    Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

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    I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

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    Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

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    My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

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    My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

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    Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

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    Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.

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    Only six need be attempted.

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    One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

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    Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

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    Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

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    Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

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    Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

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    The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

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    The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

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    The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.