English - Comedian | November 27, 1954 -
Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.
Arthur Smith
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I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.
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I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.
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My eyebrows could do with a trim.
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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.
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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
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The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
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It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.
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Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?
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The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.
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