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People aren't universally heroic.

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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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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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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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If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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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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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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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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