Simon Callow Quotes
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.
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My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.
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To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.
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Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
