Adrian Edmondson Quotes

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

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• The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

  

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• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

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• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

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• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

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• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

  

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• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

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• I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

  

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• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

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• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

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• Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

  

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  

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• I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.

  

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• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

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• On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

  

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• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
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