Rik Mayall Quotes
When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
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When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
