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title: "2 Down the road Quotes By Alexei Sayle"
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> [I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-exist-as-an-annexe-of-the-bbc-i-m-down-the-road-a-bit-from-the-main/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

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> [But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/but-as-in-all-cults-what-s-central-to-the-communist-party-is-the/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

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## More by Alexei Sayle

> [I am quite girly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-am-quite-girly/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/israel-is-the-jimmy-saville-of-nation-states/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/the-optimum-frequency-with-which-comedians-should-do-a-series-is/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/it-always-seemed-to-be-a-constant-that-my-parents-were-political/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/recently-my-personal-advisors-have-been-telling-me-to-go-to-america/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-exist-as-an-annexe-of-the-bbc-i-m-down-the-road-a-bit-from-the-main/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/now-as-a-comic-if-you-re-vaguely-amusing-you-can-go-straight-into-tv/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-don-t-think-people-were-that-interested-in-what-i-was-doing-for-the/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [I'm fascinated by comedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-m-fascinated-by-comedy/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/a-lot-of-those-comics-can-t-hold-down-relationships-and-they-ve-got/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/as-a-comic-you-try-something-and-if-it-works-you-go-with-it-and-grind/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/americans-have-different-ways-of-saying-things-they-say-elevator-we/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-would-say-i-was-still-a-marxist-which-is-not-to-be-confused-with/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/i-feel-really-ambiguous-about-the-psychology-of-people-trying-to-do/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

> [If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexei-sayle/if-i-won-the-lottery-i-d-start-a-charity-that-helped-little-family/)

[Alexei Sayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexei-sayle/)

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