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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
Alexei Sayle
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Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
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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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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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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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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
Alexei Sayle
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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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
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I'm an intellectual.
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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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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle
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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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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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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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I am quite girly.
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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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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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People aren't universally heroic.
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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 always thought communism was crap, really.
Alexei Sayle