Quotes about satire, page 7
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
quote by John Cusack
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A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
quote by Jeanne-Marie Roland
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For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.
quote by Paul Krassner
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
quote by Dawn Powell
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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
quote by John Cusack
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We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
quote by Adolph Green
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
quote by Imogene Coca
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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
quote by Michael Flanders
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
quote by David Zucker
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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
quote by Laurence Housman
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