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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
People
Universally
Heroic
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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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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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
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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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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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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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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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Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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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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