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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.

Barry Humphries

He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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
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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Art Past Point Seductive Song
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
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
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 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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Comedian People 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
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

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