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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Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.
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The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the
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With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
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I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
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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.
