Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes
I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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People never believe you.
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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I love to clean.
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My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
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Don't believe a word they're telling to you. They let me down, where will I find where I fit in, I hate this town.
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Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.
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For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
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Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.
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I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.
