Paul Simonon Quotes
I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
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I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
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How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
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I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
