John Simm Quotes
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.
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'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.
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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
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Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
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Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.
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Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
