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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!

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Bill Bailey
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 13
Comedian
Composer
Guitarist
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Screenwriter
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
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Mark Bailey
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I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the segregation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
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Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
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I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
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I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
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The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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This was my attempt to deter cold callers: There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone.
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