Neil Innes Quotes
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I love cycling.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
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For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
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To be quite honest, I'm not religious.
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Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
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When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
