Eric Morecambe Quotes
Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
Quotes to Explore
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.
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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
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Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
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For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
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Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
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Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
