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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and, if you like, how he happened.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 27, 1965

Topics

Character You Monster Complex Been

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world.

Joakim Noah

Family World Summer Go Over Would

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

John Lithgow

Time Plays By The Time Shakespearean

NYFW is not just about the designers and the runway. It is a massive production from the celebrities in attendance, the assistants backstage prepping the models before they walk to the epic after-parties!

Jeffree Star

Walk Runway Attendance Production

All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy.

Jeff Dunham

College Me Unique Boy Searching

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Stephen Rodrick

People Me Stranger Tell Magical Get

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Michael Moorcock

Work Think You Find Pictures Write

If there are people out by the bus, I'll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, 'If I ever get on the bus and don't come off, it's because I'm under the weather or I'm really tired.'

Luke Bryan

Tired People Weather Want Out Bus

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Dianne Feinstein

Feel Right Safe Guns Banning

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Douglas Coupland

Family Same Next Just Differently

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Dee Wallace

Light Doing Career Bored Little

People tell me the 50s are the best time - I'm ready! That whole stigma of being over 40 and not being sexy anymore is fake news. We're more vibrant because we have experience; we know our bodies.

Connie Britton

Time Best Experience People Me Fake

My stories are never quite good enough.

Anne Tyler

Good Enough Never Stories Quite