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Laughter is the best creative medicine.

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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth, but it doesn't feel English.
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Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
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It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
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If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.
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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
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I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
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Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
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As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a giant pattern detector. If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.
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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
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I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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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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Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
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