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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love History Theatre Bloody I Love

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

College Stereotypes Out Coming Going

I'm sour at times.

My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

Michael Strahan

Friend Time Day Brother Me Fat

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Think Process Everything Horrible

To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

Success I Am Me Measure Back Single

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Principal Irish Fifty Population Ten

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

Reputation Think Political Fair Hear

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

Family Growing Up Texas Loved Grow

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.

Chelsea Handler

Art Fun Stand Talking Museum Cruise

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Time Writing My Own Hard Turn Own

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

Live People Humanity You Page Way

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Thomas Traherne

Stars Sea Space World Enjoy You

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