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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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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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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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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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.
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Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
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I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.
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Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
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I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.
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The future is arriving sooner than we imagine.
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I take, like, 500 selfies to get one I like.
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I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
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That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.
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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.
