Paul Merton Quotes
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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I've had such an odd career.
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There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see - I think that is enough to say about them...
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More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
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The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
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Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.
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I've been outspoken forever about everything.
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Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
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I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.
