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From Quotes by John Cleese
- English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
- I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I…
- I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another…
- When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
- We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
- The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
- There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
- This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or…
- To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
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