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When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Dylan Moran

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Dylan Moran
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 3
Comedian
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Dylan William Moran
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The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.
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I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.
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Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.
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Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
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It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.
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I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.
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He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
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