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Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
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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I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.
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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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I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.
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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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Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.
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We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.
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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.
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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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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
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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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There's nothing good on the television let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
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Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
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If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
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I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!
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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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Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
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