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I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

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Douglas Adams
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March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

Eric Idle

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Lou Doillon

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied.

Michael Palin

The sport, my job, was taken from me so abruptly that it took me a long time to get my life back.

Mardy Fish

I was ecstatic when I got my first film. But it took me some time to realise that the struggles and hardships would never be over.

Kirti Kulhari

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

Pete Best

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

Erin O'Connor

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

Alice Cooper

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

Matt Haig

John Cleese is a very fast worker and a highly disciplined one.

Prunella Scales

Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.

Fiona Bruce

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

Christopher Wylie

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Penelope Gilliatt

It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

Marla Runyan

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.

Maggie Haberman

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