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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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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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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As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
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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'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
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The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
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I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
