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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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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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
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I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.
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When a celebrity is spotted carrying a particular bag, everybody wants to own the same thing.
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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
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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.
