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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

I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
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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Comedian People Thinking
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
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 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
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

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