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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

Barry Humphries

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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’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
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 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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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
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

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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