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Neil Innes Quotes

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: December 9, 1944

Topics

Think Laugh Musicians Like Most

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

Work Practice Me Intent Dichotomy

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

Life Passion Real Books Suppose

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Hope Waiting Energy Someone You Go

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.

New York Self Evening Friday Walking

I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.

Good Business Today School Red Hair

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

Best Tennis Peak Played Lot Matches

I don't think about going back to the theater.

Angela Lansbury

Think Back Going Theater About

We're all human. We have our foibles, we've made mistakes, and yet there is still greatness.

Mistakes Greatness Human Still Made

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

Lips Tongue Letters Teeth Way Her

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

End Generation Reward Come And Go Go

Television has changed. There's obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I'm not closed off to television. If there's an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I'd definitely be open to it.

Great People Amazing Story Open Off

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Fear Death Mind Create Inevitable

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