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Simon Mawer Quotes

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1948

Topics

People Bank University Saw Who Most

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

Jerry Pournelle

Coffee People Reading You Rules Go

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

People Think You Afraid Consider

I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates.

Eating Sugar Carbohydrates Processed

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Data Come And Go Go Same Always

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Life Respect Responsibility Book

They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap.

Hollywood Up Cheat Stay Screwed

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

William H. Macy

Say Yes Rewrite Based Script

I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.

Family Beach Experience Wife People

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Myself Think Find Try Question

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Me Turn Pretty Heavy Get Off

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

Want Movies Try Write Hard Just

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

Good People Fashion Believe Think

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