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Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
John Cleese
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
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Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
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We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, I wish I hadn't been born? Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?
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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
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Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
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What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.
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The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
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What's the bleedin' point?
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
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I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
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I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.
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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
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