My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
BARRY HUMPHRIESMost of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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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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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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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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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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