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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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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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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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I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
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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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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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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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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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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 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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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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