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 heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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People will say candy is recession-proof, and we're definitely seeing nostalgic candies coming about, and people want that sugar rush and that nostalgic happiness, like their childhood times.
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To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because he always did. And there's something heroic in a flapping coat, but at the same time, I need to get rid of it sometimes and just be a scrawny guy in a suit that doesn't quite fit.
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
