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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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
