Alexei Sayle Quotes
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I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
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I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
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The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
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I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
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I'm an intellectual.
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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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I am quite girly.
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I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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People aren't universally heroic.
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.