Barry Humphries Quotes
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.
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He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
