John Simm Quotes
You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
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It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
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Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
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Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.
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You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.
