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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.

Barry Humphries

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
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
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
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
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
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 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.
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Art Past 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
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
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

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