Quote by Terry Gilliam (about Minnesota)

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

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I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

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Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

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I don't do drugs. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

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Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

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Gorillaz virtually changed my wife... sorry, I mean, life... no, actually, it was my wife.

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I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.

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In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America - it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.

Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

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Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

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I want this on my tombstone:
Here lies Terry Gilliam
RIP
He giggled in awe.

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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words "Monty Python" to me. It's not bad.

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We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

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Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor function. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column.

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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

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We can't stop here! This is bat country!

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There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.

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Oh, wouldn't it be great if I was crazy? Then the world would be okay.

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While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

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Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

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Canada Minnesota

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota

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You can leave Minneapolis, but it will never leave you.

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I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

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You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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Frenchman: "You empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Sir Galahad: "Is there someone else up there we can talk to?"
Frenchman: "No! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

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Ah, I see you have the machine that goes "ping!". This is my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

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We find your American beer like making love in a canoe. It's f-ing close to water.

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What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

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I loved every minute of Python and owe so much to them.

Carol Cleveland - June 2014

What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

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