Simon Mawer Quotes
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
