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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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.'
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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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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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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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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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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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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
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The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
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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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People aren't universally heroic.
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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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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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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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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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