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Actually, when you’re doing something you love, even when you’re busy and it’s hectic you don’t feel the need to relax.

Al Murray

It’s a weight problem isn’t it; you can’t wait for lunch.
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Lunch Problem Wait Weight
I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than having to do it for a living means I still love the drums.
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Carry Drum Live Lot Love Mean Play Pure Rather Still Think Way World
I try to be musical. Drums can set a mood, create an impression, as much as anything else.
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Anything Create Drum Else Impression Mood Much Musical Set Try
I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.
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Chance Holiday See Seld Sufficiency
You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave.
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Aone Kid Learn Leave Microwave Opener Remote Tin Work
All about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts.
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Anyone Career Creative Develop Path Relevant
You find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls.
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Call Find Luck Maybe Technique Voice Yourself
In the world of comedy, there’s this: “If it’s going badly, get off. If it’s going well, get off”. You can’t argue with that either.
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Argue Badly Comedy Either Go Off Well World
I’m not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
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Fighter Freedom Alcoholic Taliban
My mum had a cousin that had played when he was younger.
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Cousin Fantastic Honest Mum Play Younger
When I left uni, I carried on playing and trying out at stand-up.
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Carry Left Out Play Stand Try Up
The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end.
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Anything Arrange Context Create End Interest Mean More Music Musical Something Think
I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I’m doing nothing, but… hanging out with clever and interesting people is a must if you’re writing comedy, like hanging out with a good bass player when you’re a drummer.
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Actual Bass Clever Do Drum Good Hang Look Lot Nothing Player Read Spend Think Writing
Actually, when you’re doing something you love, even when you’re busy and it’s hectic you don’t feel the need to relax.
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Actual Busy Girlfriend Hectic Holiday Love Need Relax Something Upset
Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up.
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Art Comic Creativity Head Inside Read Serious Stand Up Want Worse
The American dream? We don’t have a dream in Britain because we’re bloody awake!
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Awake Bloody Country Dream World

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