Neil Innes Quotes
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.
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When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
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My wife's trying to get me into yoga, and it's gonna take me a while, but eventually I'm gonna have to.
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous 'Know thyself' inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
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If I want to know how to do a black cat eye, I don't drive to a department store. I'll go on YouTube, cross-check reviews of a product, and then maybe talk about it on Instagram.
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
