Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes
People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I have a great office.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
