Simon Spurr Quotes

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Better

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Deep
  • Religion

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Life
  • Women
  • Poetry

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Words

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Helpful

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• (You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)

  

  Andy Warhol

• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Forever
  • Politics
  • Concern

• The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Stop
  • Worry
  • Fire

• The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Road

• I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Present
  • Christmas
  • Cat

• I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Work
  • Faith

• I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.

  

  Jason Momoa

• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Homeless

• I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

  

  Simon Spurr
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Mistakes