Paul Merton Quotes

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Day

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• I always like to tell a story.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Like
  • Always
  • Story

• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rock

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Men
  • Law
  • Decision

• I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Pretty

• My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

  

  Lucy Deakins
  • Important
  • Character
  • Strong

• Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Power
  • Moral
  • Literature

• The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Black
  • Poor
  • Century

• Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

  

  Cheryl Hines

• I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

  

  Maria Menounos

• They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Why

• When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Trust

• I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Mother

• What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Person
  • Interference
  • Airs

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Character
  • Book
  • Intention

• In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

  

  Paul Merton
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