Simon McBurney Quotes

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

John Deacon

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Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Andrew Bird

MusicMeImportantAlwaysSocial

If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good.

Ann Leckie

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To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

Michael Bennet

GreatJobPeopleEnoughTeachers

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

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One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time... around 1960 or so.

Roger McGuinn

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Man is not free unless government is limited.

Ronald Reagan

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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

GreatDesignAlwaysRuinDelay

I don't know if that's going to disappoint anybody out there, but I was - I have a very rigorous warmup where I get a good sweat going before a match to prepare for battle. That is what people see; that is what people mistake for dirtiness.

Luke Harper

GoodMistakePeopleBattleKnowSee

Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

Lorene Scafaria

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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

Lisa Scottoline

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