I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
BILL BAILEYI’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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