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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.

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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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The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

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Moon, Different, Shapes

"Sun days" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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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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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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Live Life, Writing, Elderly

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I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

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Art

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

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Fall, Play, Noses

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

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Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

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Fashion, Men, Bothered

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

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I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

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Brain, Trying, Students

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

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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

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Strong, Years, Punishment

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Born: November 27, 1954
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