Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
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Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
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The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
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If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
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My eyebrows could do with a trim.
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Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
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It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
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It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
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It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
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Every generation of children has its private hero.
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I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.