People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. - Alexei Sayle

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In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Alexei Sayle

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

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I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

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