Barry Cryer Quotes
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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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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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.
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When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
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My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
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As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
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I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
