Simon Mawer Quotes
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. ... It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.
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People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
