Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
BARRY HUMPHRIESNew Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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I love Australia – I think.
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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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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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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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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’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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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