Barry Humphries Quotes

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Barry Humphries

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MyselfTreeWomanManChildThink

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

Jill Lepore

GodManBelieveChristianMystery

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Jerry Pournelle

MoneyBeerBetterYouHimSure

Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.

Jen Sincero

DayYourselfFeelYouEvery Day

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

John Tesh

OnlyMusicianKnownThe Only Thing

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

Alvaro Enrigue

HistoryTreeConstructionLanguage

Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.

Spike Jonze

BestWorld

I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.

Tory Lanez

BeforeHaterExpressed

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Rory Kinnear

LifeLiveStruggleYourselfThink

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

WarAmericanPartyDefeatLostCut

I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.

Bobbie Ann Mason

GirlWarBluePeopleWorldStory

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

GreatMenAnxietyNothingWorthy

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

Shia LaBeouf

DaySleepNightFeelGoWhole

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