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Simon Amstell
"At first I was very anxious about starting Twitter, because I didn't really know what was expected of me. I now feel fairly relaxed, in that's it a way of telling people things that you are doing, without any attempt to be entertaining. To me, even funny people who are tweeting, it just gives a glib impression. You know that it's been constructed, that it's not a thing that's just happened in that moment. So whatever you read, the best you get is, "Eh."" --
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
Simon Amstell
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“I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.”
“I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.”
“I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.”
“For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.”
“Better a tooth out than always aching.”
“Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.”
“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”
Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin
“NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.”