Simon Pegg (Simon John Pegg) Quotes
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
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Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.
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I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
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My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.
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I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
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I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.
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In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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There is a universality to comedy.
