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There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mindy Kaling", "slug": "mindy-kaling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mindy-kaling" }, "book": { "title": "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?", "slug": "is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mindy-kaling/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "cinema", "slug": "cinema", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cinema" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mindy_Kaling#Is_Everyone_Hanging_Out_Without_Me%3F_(And_Other_Concerns)_(2011)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:23" }, { "id": "c94c4b11-4c99-4913-80f3-16e0f0fc6659", "slug": "i-simply-regard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mindy-kaling/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me-and-other-concerns/i-simply-regard", "text": "I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. …. 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They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Susan Sontag", "slug": "susan-sontag", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-sontag" }, "book": { "title": "Against Interpretation and Other Essays", "slug": "against-interpretation-and-other-essays", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-sontag/against-interpretation-and-other-essays" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 212, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "cinema", "slug": "cinema", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cinema" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag#Against_Interpretation_and_Other_Essays_(1966)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:54" }, { "id": "39b85932-d2a9-4750-99fd-e04fa6a0115b", "slug": "its-funny-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange/its-funny-how", "text": "\"It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Anthony Burgess", "slug": "anthony-burgess", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess" }, "book": { "title": "A Clockwork Orange", "slug": "a-clockwork-orange", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "cinema", "slug": "cinema", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cinema" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange#Alex", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:15" }, { "id": "19a6f27f-45b2-48f5-8491-373a1f20a1e7", "slug": "dr-strangeloves-humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-ebert/the-great-movies/dr-strangeloves-humor", "text": "Dr. Strangelove's humor is generated by a basic comic principle: People trying to be funny are never as funny as people trying to be serious and failing. 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