Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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MeGeniusWantWhoWriterMade

In order to not have to deal with being gay in the world, you have to control everything. You try and walk in an un-gay way so as not to be found out. You try to control every situation, check the people around you, that you're not in the wrong place, and that can be exhausting. It goes on for decades, and it becomes mental sickness.

John Grant

WalkPeopleControlWorldSickness

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Stewart Butterfield

GoodJobMeBetterGood JobUp

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

Lleyton Hewitt

MotivationGuyBooksWhoReadNeeds

Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

Deeyah Khan

WomenMenParentsYoungAutonomy

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Deborah Sampson

LifeVirtueViceTakeGreatestMost

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Bronson Pinchot

WorkLoveLovedHollywoodNeverDid

I went abroad when I was 20, three years at Chelsea, a big club. Then two years at Madrid.

Arjen Robben

ThreeTwoYearsClubBigMadrid

It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

PresenceExpensiveBricksMortarToo

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Shawn Amos

MotherHomeAloneDepressionMeBig

What I find with my fellow female members of Congress is that we tend to work very hard. While we're very focused, we can also multitask a lot better.

Shelley Moore Capito

WorkBetterFindCongressFocused

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Sebastian Faulks

LifeTimeRomanticI AmValueWay

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

GratefulYouGoSometimesLineSee

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