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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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.
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I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
