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Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

- Graham Norton

More, Than, Given, Depth

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

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Lucky, Very, TV, Guests

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

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Young, One Day, Amount, Norton

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

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Love, Other, Available, Relatively

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

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Pleasure, Like, Very, Inconsequential

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

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Love, Bad, Celebrities, Interviewer

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

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Ten, Times, Ten Times, Interview

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

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Think, I Think, Being, Cheerful

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.

- Graham Norton

My Life, Maybe, Before, Interesting Stories

Tolerance is forced on people in London.

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People, London, Forced, Tolerance

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

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Exception, One Day, Very, Friday

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

- Graham Norton

Denial, About, Am, Cope

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

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Want, Bad, Very, Inherit

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

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Want, Feather, Show, Telly

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.

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Beautiful, Very, Lot, Whereas

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

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Knock, Planet, Occasionally, Perky

It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?

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Gift, Hours, Sort, Uninteresting

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

- Graham Norton

Thought, Aspire, Masculinity, Wow

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

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Brief, Public, Sounds, Spells

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

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Thought, Other, Foreign, Feelings

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

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Comedian, Very, Guess, Cynical

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

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Singing, Alive, Bet, Monitor

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

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Love, About, Being, Love Life

Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

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Think, Some, Pills, Depressed

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

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Here, Away, Britain, Surprised

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

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London, Middle, Like, Retire

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

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My Life, Self-Sufficient, Entirely

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

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Lovely, Show, Get, Chances

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

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Independence, Own, BBC, Victim

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

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More, Aware, Might, Profile

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