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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
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
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
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 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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
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

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