Former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan proudly displays his scrapbook during a show and tell session at the Leveson inquiry

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Three months, 63 witnesses, and £855,300 in, the Leveson inquiry has thrown up some memorable moments and quotes. And not just in Paul McMullan's testimony, although he does qualify his own special section in this post, obviously.We've had nunneries, hot tubs, paedos, priests, switchboard operators and Sylvester Stallone's mum. It's been a wild ride.Here are just a few of those quotes brought together in one place, please do add your own in comments or on Twitter to @journalismnews Actor Steve Coogan tells the inquiry that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, it's not just about the celebs.Charlotte Church on singing at the wedding of Wendi Deng and Rupert Murdoch, who obviously didn't treat her all bad.Chris Jefferies rather eloquently describes being vilified by the media in the wake of his arrest on suspicion of murdering Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates.Max Mosley responds to Paul Dacre's charge that he was guilty of "unimaginable depravity" with a quip about Dacre's own sex life. Not for the first time.Hugh Grant sets the record straight about what kind of guy he really is.Private investigator Derek Webb risks putting half the noses in the room out of joint as he lumps lawyers in with some (other) unsavoury characters.Piers Morgan gives the only answer really possible to David Barr's question: "What's the difference between a paedophile and a switchboard operator?""Hot tubbing": A legal term that might have seemed more at home in one of Paul McMullan's celebrity sting stories.Former News of the World TV editor Sharron Marshall describes the scientific approach to researching her book, "Tabloid Girl - A True Story"......and Leveson quickly debunks it.The former News of the World hack harks back to playground days, when swaps was for football stickers and pogs rather than strangers' mobile numbers.The "Monica Defence": Easily as audacious an attempt at mitigation as its notorious predecessor McMullan explains how Miller has it the wrong way round. Being chased down the street late at night by 15 men is really the sincerest form of flattery.And later describes the admirable lengths he went to, here as his alter-ego "Brad the rent boy", to get a story.Perhaps the most thought-provoking revelation from the inquiry so far was that Paul McMullan's journalism was, at times, beneath even himself.So self-evident a statement as to need no explanation from me.

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