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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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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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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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
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It's important to always mix the past with the present. I think that makes it feel more authentic and real.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
