Simon McBurney Quotes

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 25, 1957

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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

Jodie Foster

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Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

John C. Stennis

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For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Jermaine Jackson

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People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

Jefferson Han

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The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.

Jeb Hensarling

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When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.

Jeff Buckley

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I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

John Rocha

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I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

Roger Federer

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I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Michael Newdow

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A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.

Milly Shapiro

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Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Joseph Kosinski

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