Simon McBurney Quotes
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
Quotes to Explore
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
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I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
