Eric Idle Quotes
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.
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If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
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I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
