Simon Mawer Quotes
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
Simon Mawer
Quotes to Explore
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen
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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.
Vanilla Ice
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Gail Z. Martin
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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.
Karan Johar
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
Natalie Portman
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If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.
Emraan Hashmi
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I didn't have a childhood.
Pat Morita
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
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It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movie in between 'Empire' and 'Return of the Jedi,' where Luke is training. It's so much cooler to cut from end of 'Empire' to beginning of 'Return,' where he's become the Jedi.
David Benioff
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing.
Honore de Balzac
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
Simon Mawer