Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

Jo Brand

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I think New York is more stylish than London.

Max Irons

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The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

John Updike

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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

Amy Sherald

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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

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Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Liz Smith

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I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

Jostein Gaarder

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Diane Arbus

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The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

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My parents were really nice to me.

Bryan Callen

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When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.

Anupam Kher

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You should not be defined by one bad performance.

Ashley Wagner

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