“ Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. ”
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“ I owe my future married happiness to trade union legislation. In 1986, when Rik Mayall and I toured Australia, we had to have a support act of two Aussies for every one Brit, so they booked an all-girl band called The Jam Tarts, which she was in. ”
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“ I owe my future married happiness to trade union legislation. In 1986, when Rik Mayall and I toured Australia, we had to have a support act of two Aussies for every one Brit, so they booked an all-girl band called The Jam Tarts, which she was in. ”
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“ Prevarication is the absolute essence of any endeavour, but it's not just writing novels, it could be the situation of paying a gas bill. People will basically do anything to avoid doing the thing that they're supposed to be doing. ”
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“ The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. ”
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“ Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy. ”
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“ No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ”
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“ People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ”
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“ No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ”
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“ Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy. ”
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“ My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! ”
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“ We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. ”
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“ No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ”
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“ Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy. ”
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“ The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. ”
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“ I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. ”
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“ I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. ”
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“ Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it. ”
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“ I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. ”
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“ People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ”
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“ Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ”
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“ No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ”
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“ We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. ”
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“ Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ”
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“ I'm not writing the novels to be a preacher, but I obviously feel, as everybody doe,s strongly about environmental issues. But I'm not a zealot. I don't think we should all have to wear Hessian underwear and knit our yoghurt. ”
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“ I don't know about the superhighways-it's a load of technowank, frankly. ”
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“ If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. ”
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“ Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it. ”
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“ The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. ”
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