Simon Callow Quotes
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta.
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People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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If we can find the will I strongly believe we can still make Britain’s approach to talent a bit more X-factor (without Simon Cowell) and a bit less Downton Abbey.
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I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
