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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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 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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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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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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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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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