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It’s strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

David Walliams

My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London’s Lexington Street. It’s a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.
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Fun Healthy Years
I know somebody from university who’s called Phil Collins, and I think there’s something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
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Names Thinking Unfortunate
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
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Helping Kids Others Want
All human life can be found in an airport.
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Airports Found Human Life
I think comedy is a bit more international than people credit. I happily watch lots of American shows and American comedy films. If I did a list of the top 10 comedy films in Britain, there’s no sense that it would probably be different than yours.
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Different People Thinking
There’s something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
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Comedian Mean Scared
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it’s over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
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Book Character Writing
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
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Funny Things Thinking Trying
There’s a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
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Bars Magic Numbers
Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can’t rely on thinking “Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch.” You’ve got to try to work on the words.
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Mind Thinking Writing
I’m terribly attention-seeking. It’s very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can’t exactly.
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Attention Different Want
We’ve got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.
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Boys Dressing Transvestites Years
It’s strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.
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Sadness Strange Way
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
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Confidence Internet Self Television
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
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People Satire Social
I don’t get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
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Delightful Fans Happy Mets Very

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