"I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted."

-- Richard Russo

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“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”
“You don't go to a race track to finish second.”
“All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.”
“When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.”
“While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.”
“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

Source : "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.
“Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.”
“I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.”

Source : "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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