Paul Merton Quotes
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really.
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Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
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You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.
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I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
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Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.
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I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.
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I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
