Simon Callow Quotes
I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.
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We are focusing Philip Morris organization much more on the new business. We will have very few new traditional product introductions, and as markets switch to IQOS we would remove resources from the old business completely.Next year IQOS becomes profitable, so even the financing from these traditional businesses isn't necessary anymore, because it becomes fully self-sustaining.
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I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
