Paul Merton Quotes
I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
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When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.
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Weight lifting is the easiest part of my day.
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I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.
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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.
