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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

Barry Humphries

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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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Desire Husbands Women
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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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Comedian People Thinking
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Destiny Satire School Someone World
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

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