Simon Toyne Quotes

I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

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• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Way

• The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Me
  • Economist

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I already am a product.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Product
  • Am

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Company
  • Three
  • Pizza

• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Want
  • Development
  • Inspire

• Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Only
  • Cure
  • Grease

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

  

  Brendan Benson
  • Stop
  • Stupid
  • Story

• I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Me

• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • World
  • Home
  • Dream

• I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

  

  Simon Toyne
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