Barry Humphries Quotes
My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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A will finds a way.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
