Robert Webb Quotes

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• I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
• Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
• To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
• My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.
• We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
• We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament,…
• When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that…
• Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
• It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.
• We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
• My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
• Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I…
• We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this…
• UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.
• The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they…
• Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.
• When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
• Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise…
• Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
• One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John…

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