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"I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took..." — Douglas Adams
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
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