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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’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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well 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
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
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
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
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports

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