Simon McBurney Quotes
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.
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I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
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The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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We all need a firm sense of identity.
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I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
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A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
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In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
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You walked in on the sly Scopin' for love In the crowd, I caught your eye You can't hide your stuff.You came to catch You thought I'd be naive and tame You met your match I beat you at your own game.
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Normally for photo shoots I get a full wax, some tanning, a facial.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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The Marathi film 'Natrang' has amazing songs. I also like and have sufi and folk music.
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
