Simon Mawer Quotes
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
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With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.
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We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
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Only the blue sky, green land alliance can make Taiwan better.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.
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When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.
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Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.
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Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
