Simon McBurney Quotes
I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
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We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
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I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
