Simon McBurney Quotes

For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.

Jim Brown

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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

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I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

Tommy Hilfiger

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For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

Robin Sloan

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I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

Joss Whedon

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I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Jon Meacham

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I'm a jeans, T-shirt, boots kind of guy.

Diego Klattenhoff

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The team needs a leader to handle everything with rules and constant stability. Mourinho is the ideal man for that job, and we are delighted about it.

Sergio Ramos

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I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.

Richard Greenberg

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Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Mark Zuckerberg

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If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

James Gleick

LiveWorldBetterLookMannersWant

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

James Gleick

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