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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is beware. This is not a wine for drinking this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.
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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
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I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
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