Simon Callow Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.
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It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.
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Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.
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(imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!
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Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
