Paul Merton Quotes
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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I do regard myself as very lucky.
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
