"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
"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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Source: Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.41, Hachette UK
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