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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, quite a lot of older people go. For them, it's like pre-alternative comedy, when there was Dave Allen or Jackie Mason or someone. Also, weirdly, because I don't really swear, they're not scared off.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I'm much cleaner than the people they like. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to think that a 70-year-old - particularly someone like Alan Bennett - would like it, because they've seen a lot of stuff.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of stand-up showcases on TV are made by production companies that also represent acts as clients, so there tends to be a demonstrable bias towards a certain group of people.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gives me satisfaction to help people.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020