Simon Mawer Quotes
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
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I'm married to my best friend!
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I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
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Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.
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When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
