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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 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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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
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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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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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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 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 would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
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By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.
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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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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
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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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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.
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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 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've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
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Ask yourself, When does this decision have to be taken? and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.
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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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