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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I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
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Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
