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.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThe 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.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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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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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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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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