Simon Callow Quotes
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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Think with your whole body.
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We need to increase education budgets.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
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The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
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All men are born good.
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
