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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.

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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible

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