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Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what. -- Josh Peck
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. -- Constantin Stanislavski
There's nothing gratuitous about my films. -- Dario Argento
I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. -- Harold Ramis
I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous. -- Amber Valletta
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. -- Judi Dench
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. -- Rebecca Romijn
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble. -- Michael Biehn
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. -- Edward Norton
I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. -- Simone Weil
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. -- John Updike
I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths. -- Gina Rodriguez
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake. -- Michael Biehn
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. -- Henry Miller
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! -- Lloyd Kaufman
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act. -- Todd Rundgren
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. -- Jonathan Miller
Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics! -- Colin Angle
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. -- Man Ray
I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them. -- Gallagher
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story. -- Neil Marshall
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story. -- Bobby Farrelly
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
Theres nothing gratuitous about my films. -- Dario Argento
Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift. -- Octavio Paz
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous. -- Henry David Thoreau
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. -- George Eliot
I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous. -- Natalie Dormer
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous. -- Tom Stoppard
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. -- William Rounseville Alger
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. -- Mircea Eliade
A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine. -- Ray Wise
I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous. -- Sarah Lancashire
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. -- William James
Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything. -- Oliver Jackson-Cohen
We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated. -- Natalie Dormer
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise. -- John Calvin
There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three. -- Samuel R. Delany
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous. -- Alexandre Aja
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. -- David Steindl-Rast
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one -- Mahatma Gandhi
Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous. -- Annie Dillard
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous. -- Annie Dillard
We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet. -- Joseph Stefano
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading. -- Billy Collins
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Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others. -- Robert Genn
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today. -- Jim Butcher
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks, and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional, and gratuitous! -- Pope Francis
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! -- Lloyd Kaufman
To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity. -- H. L. Mencken
This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. -- Christopher Moore
I really like gratuitous nudity. I hate when people go, 'I'll only do it if it makes sense for the movie'. It never makes sense. So I like it - the more gratuitous the better. -- David Duchovny

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