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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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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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.
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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.
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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.
