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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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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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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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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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 like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
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I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
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It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
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I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.
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The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
