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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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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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 was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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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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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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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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Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.
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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 grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I have grown up using Colgate; my long-standing association with the brand has been very warm.
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And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'
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I'm a loner.
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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
