Barry Humphries Quotes
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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Love is more than one thing.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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History is not hatred.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
