Terry Jones
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry "Terry" Jonesis a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, historian and author. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth1 February 1942
CityColwyn Bay, Wales
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Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
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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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We do have an option agreement with the reverend, which he agreed to, he signed, and all we wanted to do was exercise our option under that agreement. And we have been prevented from doing that.
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I don't think I did anything that damaged Vogue's circulation drastically. I did some bum covers. Actually there was one cover that was completely out of focus, but it looked intentional. Fine. I think Vogue was healthy enough at that time not to worry about its sales figures.
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I don't think I did anything that damaged Vogue's circulation drastically, ... I did some bum covers. Actually there was one cover that was completely out of focus, but it looked intentional. Fine. I think Vogue was healthy enough at that time not to worry about its sales figures.
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To make that work on a varying load is very hard.
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No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.
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On the plus side, the personal financial outlook index bounced back sharply, and might be signaling further gains in coming months.
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Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.
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It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.
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I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.
I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.
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I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.