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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.

Barry Humphries

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
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
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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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 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.
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Art Past Thinking
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years

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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