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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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Russell Brand
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 4
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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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Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.
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I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
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It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.
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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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If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
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On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.
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It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
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If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.
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The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
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I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.
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I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.
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I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.
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