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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  

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• Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

  

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• I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.

  

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• I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'

  

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• 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