Neil Innes Quotes
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
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When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'
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A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
