{"author":"Simon Pegg","author_id":"Simon+Pegg","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["connections","fate","love","soulmates"],"id":185,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"(on the word 'fuck')'Oh, come on, Mum,' I sighed at her protest. 'It's just an old Anglo-Saxon word for the female organ which has been adopted by an inherently misogynist language as a negative epithet. It's the same as 'fuck', it basically means the same as copulate, but the latter is perfectly acceptable. Why? Because copulate has its roots in Latin and Latin reminds us that we are a sophisticated, learned species, not the rutting animals that these prehistoric grunts would have us appear to be, and isn't that really the issue here? We don't want to admit that we are essentially animals? We want to distinguish ourselves from the fauna with grand conceits and elaborate language; become angels worthy of salvation, not dumb creatures consigned to an earthly, terminal end. It's just a word, Mum; a sound meaning a thing; and your disgust is just denial of a greater horror: that our consciousness is not an indication of our specialness but the terrifying key to knowing how truly insignificant we are.'She told me to got fuck myself.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["cuss-words","cussing","fuck","funny","humor","humour","language","latin"],"id":61796,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["connections","fate","friendships","love","memoir"],"id":65568,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film, inspiring my own creative imagination, the headphones rendering the experience intensely personal, as though it were all happening inside my own head.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["childhood","experiences","headphones","music","nerd-do-well","nostalgia","simon-pegg"],"id":96842,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["best","american","self "],"id":123159,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["childhood","experiences","future","life"],"id":161731,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness.We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["happiness","search-for-happiness","wise-words"],"id":168100,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["dora-brooking","inspirational","light-bulb","thoughts","wattage"],"id":175485,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of the human condition that something as precious as a future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that’s what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you’re young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["insight","inspirational","wisdom"],"id":201102,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["connections","fate","friendships","life"],"id":202389,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}