Barry Cryer Quotes
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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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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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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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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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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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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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
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You have the sense of touch because you need it.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
