Georges Simenon Quotes
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I love taking chances.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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History will treat me right.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
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I feel much safer knowing that's where my son is going.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
