Paul Merton Quotes

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

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• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
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• We need to see a Palestinian state.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
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  • Need
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• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
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• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

  

  David Limbaugh
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• The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

  

  Joe Green
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  • Friends

• I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Positive

• University is great, but it wasn't right for me.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Great

• I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

  

  Francoise Gilot

• My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Up
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• GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they're not there, if you can stand the ridicule from your friends.

  

  Caroline Paul
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• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Up
  • Art

• By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
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• It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Children
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  • Heart

• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photograph
  • Photographer

• There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
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• Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Stuff

• Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Comedy
  • Laughing
  • Faults

• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Confidence

• If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Laughing
  • Comedian
  • Cheating