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Parody Quotes

Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There’s a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit Picture Quote #1

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I’m getting anywhere Picture Quote #1

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire Picture Quote #1

As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages Picture Quote #1

When you’re a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you’re accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement Picture Quote #1

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Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or parody of genuinely human life Picture Quote #1

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership Picture Quote #1

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time Picture Quote #1

Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life Picture Quote #1

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form Picture Quote #1

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood Picture Quote #1

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The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun Picture Quote #1

Why does almost everything seem to me like it's own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only? Picture Quote #1

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature Picture Quote #1

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody Picture Quote #1

I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery Picture Quote #1

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody Picture Quote #1

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All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That’s why it was so easy to parody Picture Quote #1

So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit Picture Quote #1

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony Picture Quote #1

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket Picture Quote #1

When I was young and it was someone’s birthday, I didn’t have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom’s camera and make a movie parody for whoever’s birthday it was. When I’d show it them, they’d die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling Picture Quote #1

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions Picture Quote #1

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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake Picture Quote #1

I’m actually incapable of lying. I’m like a parody of a person who can’t lie Picture Quote #1

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody Picture Quote #1

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it Picture Quote #1

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I’m offended at all and I say not in the least Picture Quote #1

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I’m getting anywhere Picture Quote #1

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When I was a kid, back in the 40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like ‘All-American Comics’ or ‘Star-Spangled Comics’ or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with ‘American’ as the first word. (Parody Quotes) Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There’s a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit. (Parody Quotes) The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I’m getting anywhere. (Parody Quotes) Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire (Parody Quotes) As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages (Parody Quotes) When you’re a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you’re accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement (Parody Quotes) Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or parody of genuinely human life (Parody Quotes) It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership (Parody Quotes) It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time (Parody Quotes) Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life (Parody Quotes) It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form (Parody Quotes) The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood (Parody Quotes) The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun (Parody Quotes) Why does almost everything seem to me like it's own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only? (Parody Quotes) You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature (Parody Quotes) I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody (Parody Quotes) I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery (Parody Quotes) We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody (Parody Quotes) All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That’s why it was so easy to parody (Parody Quotes) So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit (Parody Quotes) Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony (Parody Quotes) Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket (Parody Quotes) When I was young and it was someone’s birthday, I didn’t have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom’s camera and make a movie parody for whoever’s birthday it was. When I’d show it them, they’d die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling (Parody Quotes) There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions (Parody Quotes) Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake (Parody Quotes) I’m actually incapable of lying. I’m like a parody of a person who can’t lie (Parody Quotes) I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody (Parody Quotes) The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it (Parody Quotes) Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I’m offended at all and I say not in the least (Parody Quotes) The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I’m getting anywhere (Parody Quotes)

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