John Simm Quotes

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• All men begin their learning with Homer.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Learning
  • Begin

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Professor
  • Activist

• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Working

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Starting

• Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Up
  • Different
  • You

• The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Innovation

• Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sick

• In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.

  

  Karl Marx

• When they started bumping me off in every film, it became difficult for me to die in different styles. But now I have to start thinking of different ways of getting drunk.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Die

• I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

  

  Christen Press

• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Play
  • Ready
  • Level

• Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Why

• Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

  

  John Simm