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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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 do regard myself as very lucky.
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Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.
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Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.
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Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.
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'And now,' cried Max, 'let the wild rumpus start!'
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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.
