Simon Toyne Quotes
When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
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I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
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At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.
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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
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I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egoistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.
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When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.
