Neil Innes Quotes
So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.
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I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
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Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
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We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.
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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
