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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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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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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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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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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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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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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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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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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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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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