Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
BARRY HUMPHRIESTo live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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I love Australia – I think.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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