Cambridge Quote by Eric Idle Download Open image “I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.” — Eric Idle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cambridge Comedy Culture Humor Locked Tradition
When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Once I found out there were places that people went to congregate and that there were schools to practice the craft of comedy, that's… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it, life's a laugh and deat's a joke, it's true: You'll se it's all a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.” — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica. — Brittany Kaiser Copy Share Image
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942. — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image