Simon Mawer Quotes
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
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In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.
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It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.
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When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. What keen mortification did I suffer at my ignorance! One day, no longer able to stand the jeerings of my friends, I made up my mind to learn Spanish. I purchased a dozen good novels and began to read. I did not spend hours over a grammar, but just kept on reading, taking care to remember the idioms. In the meantime my library grew. At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!
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Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.
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Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
