Simon Callow Quotes
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
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Sanctification is not regeneration.
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The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
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I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.
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The war against terrorism is one we must win.
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I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.
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I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
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Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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I have a great time touring.
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I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars
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I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
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Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
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Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
