Arthur Smith Quotes

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• If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

  Arthur Smith

  Falling In Love, Garden, Long

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• I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

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  Rain, Guy, Kind

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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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  Tragedy, May, Comedy

  "And the lion shall lie down with the lame" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

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  Artist, Canvas, Glamorous

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

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  Book, Tuscany, Excellent

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• The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

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  Reading, Exercise, Night

  "Preparing for the Bard" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2002.

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• The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

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  Real, Perception, Painting

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

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  Expression, Catwalk, Outfits

  "Haute couture for the couch potato" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

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  Funny, Laughter, Eight

  "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

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  Scary, Important, Ongoing

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• Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

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  Reading, Home, Play

  "Preparing for the Bard" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2002.

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• I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

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  Lunch, Week, Monte Carlo

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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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  Awards, Gigs, Not Worth It

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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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  Awards, Listening, Radio

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• My eyebrows could do with a trim.

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  Eyebrows

  "Arthur Smith: What I see in the mirror" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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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.

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  Believe, Sister In Law, Narrative

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• The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

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  Funny, Fall, Swimming

  "Underwater comedy" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2001.

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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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  Men, Leather Jackets, Age

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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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  People, Interesting, Perception

  "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

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• About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

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  Years, Looks, Four

  "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

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• Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

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  Play, Office, Acting

  "The agony of acting" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

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  Jobs, Acting, World

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• After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

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  Memories, Atmosphere, Phrases

  "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

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• Every generation of children has its private hero.

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  Children, Hero, Generations

  "Arthur's daily dose" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2002.

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• I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

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  Knows, Tubes

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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