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Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
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Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.
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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
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It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.
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Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?
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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
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Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.
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Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.
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She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
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I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.
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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.
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