English - Comedian | March 29, 1943 -
I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
Eric Idle
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My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
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I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
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Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
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A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
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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 it on 'Fox News'.
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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