"I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really."

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Source : "Tears of a clown". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2007.

Johnny Vegas

#Thinking Quotes #Editors Quotes #Media Quotes

“Law is always better than war.”
“I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.”
“And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“not keeping a promise is the same as lying!”
“We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.”
“Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.”
“Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.”

Source : "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.
“Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.”

Source : David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive

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