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Parody is homage gone sour. -- Brendan Gill
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I see parody as another form of comedy. -- Bruce Campbell
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself. -- Dylan Moran
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. -- David Foster Wallace
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door which read: Closed. Any inquiries please contact the Real. -- Patrick McGuinness
At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute. -- Al Yankovic
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 -- Judith Butler
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. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did. -- John Krasinski
Old age is life's parody. -- Simone de Beauvoir
You can parody almost anything. -- Bruce McCall
There are parodies of non-existent things. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. -- Daniel Libeskind
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. -- Bernard Berenson
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. -- Bill Paxton
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. -- Abigail McCarthy
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something. -- Mark Leyner
At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them. -- N. T. Wright
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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. -- Thomas Paine
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. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun. -- Pauly Shore
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal. -- Ernest Hemingway
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. -- Daniel Libeskind
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. -- Al Yankovic
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. -- Al Yankovic
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. -- Pat Robertson
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. -- Ana Gasteyer
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. -- Larry Hagman
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. -- Adam McKay
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. -- Nancy Pearcey
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. -- Andy Milonakis
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight. -- Dawn French
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. -- Al Yankovic
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. -- T. J. Miller
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. -- James Wolcott
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody. -- John Podhoretz
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen. -- Noel Wells
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. -- David Henrie
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. -- Harvey Pekar
The neuroses parody the virtues. -- Mason Cooley
In education, parody is obsolete. -- Alfie Kohn
One parody is worth a thousand polemics ... -- Jennifer Stone
Self-parody is the first portent of age. -- Larry McMurtry
The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is not parody the eternal lot of man? -- Milan Kundera
You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating. -- Keith Olbermann
Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself. -- John Updike
Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. -- Truman Capote
You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself. -- Leonard Cohen
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best. -- Eric Topol
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I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. -- Busy Philipps
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.' -- Eric Topol
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. -- Criss Jami
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. -- David Foster Wallace
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. -- C. S. Lewis
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. -- Ted Rall
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives. -- Kazimir Malevich
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody. -- Cat Deeley
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. -- Michael Haneke
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. -- Stephen Leacock
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. -- Al Yankovic
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. -- Tobias Wolff
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership. -- Tony Blair
I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody. -- Ben Stiller
The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere. -- Lynn Austin
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. -- N. T. Wright
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. -- David Bowie
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. -- James Russell Lowell
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. -- Al Yankovic
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors. -- Frederick Lenz
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors. -- Frederick Lenz
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be. -- Adam McKay
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. -- Peter Kreeft
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody. -- Margaret Cho
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do. -- Marilyn Manson
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. -- Georges Bataille
I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys? -- Jim Norton
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process. -- Adrian Smith
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. -- Mort Crim
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me. -- Drake
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple. -- Nate Mendel
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the â??Oh how banal.â?? -- David Foster Wallace
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. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs. -- Joseph Conrad
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man. -- Jon Landau
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness. -- Umberto Eco
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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