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'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
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Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
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The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
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People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.
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When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
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I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
