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 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.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architect
  • Brazilian

• 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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • Career
  • Question

• Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Today

• I get a great high from writing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Great
  • Writing
  • High

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  

  Usher
  • Work
  • Age
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • High
  • Sports

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Question
  • Honor

• I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Family

• Only the blue sky, green land alliance can make Taiwan better.

  

  Annette Lu
  • Sky
  • Green
  • Blue

• Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Long

• When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.

  

  Charice Pempengco

• I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Moving

• My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Long
  • Family
  • Parents

• The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Time
  • Science

• Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Work

• To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • War
  • Support
  • Struggle

• 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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