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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I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
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In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
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For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.
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It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
