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Paul Merton Quotes

At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 9, 1957

Topics

Heart Night Someone Sitting Meat

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

Death People Me Little Those List

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

Embrace California Skateboarding Just

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Martin O'Malley

Brave Make It Happen Impossible Dream

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

Mika Brzezinski

Family Mountains More Active Always

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Choices Reading Young Nice Safe

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

Josh Ryan Evans

Home Character Time Me Growing Up

The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

You Want Movies First Kid Open

My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.

Antoine Griezmann

Past Better Year Goal Done Improve

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Faith People Year Fairness Matter

I know that I'm not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.

Responsibility Control Road Learn

There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'

Hollywood More Over Just Idea Again

If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.

Son Blue Place Dinosaurs Extinct He

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