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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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Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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 won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
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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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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
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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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Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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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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