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.
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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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It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.
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I look back at my days at Iowa, and we walked out on the football field with those guys, and we had no doubt we were going to win. It didn't matter what anyone was saying or doing. We walked out there knowing what we had was good enough to win. That's a great feeling.
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
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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.
