Tim Vine Quotes - Page 3

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• You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

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  Funny, Humor, Circles

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• I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.

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  Funny, Humor, Restaurants

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• I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.

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  Funny, Humor, Doors

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.20, Random House

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• With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

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  Confidence, Silly, Laughing

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• If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

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  Pun, Ifs

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• People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

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  Silly, People, Childhood

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• I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

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  Stars, Mean, Rocks

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• People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

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  Garden, Thinking, People

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• One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

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  Dad, Son, Years

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• If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

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  Stories, Narrative, One Liner

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• I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

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  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

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  Writing, Important, Able

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• Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

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  Style, Different, Comedy

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• For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

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  Real, Real Life, Pun

  "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. August 20, 2014.

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• I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

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  Acting, Bonus

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