I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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I love Australia – I think.
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I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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