Stephen Merchant Quotes

It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 24, 1974

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MeLookNowSayFocusedProfound

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

Joan Jett

LifeEyesMomentJobMeWorld

I'm becoming more powerful.

Jenn Suhr

PowerfulMoreBecoming

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

LoveStatusMustAmateurStrictly

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

Matt Drudge

DeathTeamMakeupEnoughLadyFast

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

Steven Spielberg

FamilyTogetherGrowing UpGrowing

The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.

Tony Dungy

LeaderBestYouFollowChrist

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

Robert Creeley

BookYouWonderPlaceIslandFirst

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Michelle Williams

LifeBelieveThinkCirclesConnect

I miss many chances, but I always keep trying, and sometimes you score easy goals or difficult goals, but in the end, I am trying to score.

Mohamed Salah

GoalsI AmEndTryingEasyYou

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

Jonathan Groff

FamilyPeopleGraceThinkAmerica

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

Chester Brown

TimeStartDrawingWhateverChanging

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.

Cindy Sheehan

PeopleWorldLookingBelieveSomeone

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