Simon Callow Quotes

In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

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• I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

  

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• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

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• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

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• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

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• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

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• I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

  

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• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

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• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  

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• I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

  

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• I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

  

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• What could be better than working with people you love?

  

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• It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

  

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• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

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• ...What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

  

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• we not only help those countries in the region which are subject to Iraqi threats and intimidation, we also deprive Saddam of his most powerful tools for keeping the Iraqi people living in fear and subjugation.

  

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• I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.

  

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• Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

  

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• When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

  

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• In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

  

  Simon Callow
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