Simon Callow Quotes

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

Simon Callow

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

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• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

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• We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.

  

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

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• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

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• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

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• I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

  

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• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

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• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  

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• I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• I don't need much coaxing.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Need
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• In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

  

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

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• I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.

  

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• Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

  

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• We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

  

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• To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?

  

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• Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.

  

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• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

  

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  

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• Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

  

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• If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Moving
  • Feet
  • Behinds