Simon Winchester Quotes

I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 28, 1944

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One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

John Cho

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I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

Meir Soloveichik

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In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.

Matt Kemp

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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn

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A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.

John Varvatos

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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Tony Blair

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I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

Robin Wright

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I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.

Ronit Roy

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I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim Gunn

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Fear is something I try not to absorb.

Mark E. Smith

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It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

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I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Golan Levin

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