Eric Idle Quotes
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
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The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
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I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
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I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.
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Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
