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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
Dog
Blind
Opportunity
Often
Find
Even
Every
Bone
Bones

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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 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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People aren't universally heroic.
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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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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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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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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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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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