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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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
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As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.
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I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.
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Foolish people - when I say 'foolish people' in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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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.
