Simon Callow Quotes
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
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To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.
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It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
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The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.
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Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.
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I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'
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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
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You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.
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I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
