My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig … - Eddie Izzard

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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Eddie Izzard

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

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I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is. " But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

America, Remember, Republican, Thinking, Told, Two

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

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I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over. Cause if a woman falls over wearing heels, that’s embarrassing. But if a bloke falls over wearing heels, you have to kill yourself. It’s the end of your life.

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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Religion, Stories, Talk, Think, Thinking, Trying

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt. . . you weird talking person.

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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

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Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

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Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.

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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

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The evolutionary epic is. . . the best myth we will ever have.

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