Simon Callow Quotes
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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I'm not graceful.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.
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The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
