Simon McBurney Quotes
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.
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I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't need, so I covered it up. When I ran into him, he was like 'What did you do with the nook? I used to go in there and play video games.' When I told him it was gone, he was so upset. I didn't think this 20-year-old boy would even care!
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.
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I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.
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The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.
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During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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On or about December 1910, human character changed.
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When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality, the stronger the illusion is.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
