"Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image."

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Source : "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

Catherine Tate

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“The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.”
“I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.”
“I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.”
“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
“Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.”
“1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.”

Source : "Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science" by Peter Atkins, Ch. 10, (p. 333), 2003.
“The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.”
“We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.208, Adam, Stevenson

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