Eric Idle Quotes
A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
