Paul Merton Quotes
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
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I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
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What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.
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When politics is interesting, people go vote.
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.
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We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.
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I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
