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If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Alexei Sayle

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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
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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 like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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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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However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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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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