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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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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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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When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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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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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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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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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 like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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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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