Adrian Edmondson Quotes
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
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A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.
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'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.
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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
