Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes

I don't have any hidden depths; I'm a very superficial person. It's a constant frustration to me.

Stephen Merchant

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Attention
  • Start

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Art
  • Business

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Salvation

• A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Tradition

• People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Science
  • Space

• We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Rock
  • Nostalgia act
  • Musical organization

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Help
  • Me

• I don't have any hidden depths; I'm a very superficial person. It's a constant frustration to me.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • Person
  • Frustration
  • Superficial