Simon Mawer Quotes
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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I don't read the critics.
Olivier Dahan
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
Nate Corddry
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
Hannibal Buress
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
C. L. R. James
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
Lady Gregory
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
Jack Davenport
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
Hannah Marks
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
Mahershala Ali
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
Adam Pally
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I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.
James Norton
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
Fred Korematsu
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.
Behdad Sami
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
J. I. Packer
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I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer
