"Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not."

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Source : "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

Eric Idle

#Graduation Quotes #Simple Quotes #Plot Quotes

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”
“I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big.”
“We don't need secrecy.”
“There is no normal life, there's just life.”
“Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.”
“It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.”
“I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.”
“I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.”

Source : "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview with Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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