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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: 84
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
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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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The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
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Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.
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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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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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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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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
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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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My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.
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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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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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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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I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
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I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
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When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.
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