Simon Mawer Quotes
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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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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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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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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
