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Simon Winchester Quotes

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Culture Wife I Am Fashion Think

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Day Fight Free Guilty Out Classics

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

World Rest Doing Country Anything

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Space Animals Want Messy Normal

God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Work God People Doing Remember Us

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Writing Book Deep Think You Trouble

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Life Generation Cry First Whose

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Seriously Write Take Started Until

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

Jonathan Frakes

Think Better Actor Director Than

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.

Good Mistakes Risks Fashion Think

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

People Prison Think Jail Never Bail

Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.

Life Villain Think Someone You Look

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Happiness Moment Curious Colleagues

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