Simon McBurney Quotes
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
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I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.
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Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Nick Cardy's work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
