"I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!"
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"What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity."
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"When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money."
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"My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is."
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"I'll not be changing, but America will."
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"I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet."
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"Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful."
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"My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other."
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"I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable."
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"Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do."
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"For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world."
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"The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek"
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"I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good."
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"Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster."
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"... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be."
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"I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence."
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"I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles."
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"I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'"
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"Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics."
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"Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really."
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