Barry Humphries Quotes
Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.
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Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen
