Eric Idle Quotes
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I get homesick.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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If I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would be Heidi Moore. She's a financial journalist at NPR's Marketplace.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.
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It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
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I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
