Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes
People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
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I love 'Gossip Girl' for so many reasons. The show is like candy: a delicious treat for fans.
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Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
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Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
