Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes
It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
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While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
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It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
