Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes
You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
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I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
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Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.
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It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
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I just have to remember that everybody has their time.
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I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
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They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
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I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.
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You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.
