Barry Humphries Quotes

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

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They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

Jim Cole

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Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Jessamyn West

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So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

Robert Kennedy

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I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

Ann Macbeth

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What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

Amitava Kumar

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I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.

Steve Vai

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I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

Mija

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Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Louise Fresco

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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Juan Rulfo

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Diana Ross

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