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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.

Barry Humphries

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
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
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
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
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
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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Fun Needs Together
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
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 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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