Simon Callow Quotes
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.
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Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
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People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.
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Action creates a taste for itself.
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The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.
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Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
