Al Murray Quotes
In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.

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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’
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All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!
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Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.