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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle
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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
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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 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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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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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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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
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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.
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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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 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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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?
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