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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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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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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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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Two is company; three is fifty bucks.
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
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For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
