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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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Film Actor
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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 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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