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Simon McBurney Quotes

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work I Am You Feeling Down Earth

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Jean Froissart

Home Law Harvest Kind Wood Corn

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Stephen F. Lynch

Kind Purchasing Share Products Six

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

Tom Stoppard

Car Fire Police New York Building

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Time Room Who Kids Wanted Around

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Desmond Tutu

History Shame Europe Head Own Bow

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland

Things Funniest Self-Delusion

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Bryan Greenberg

Life Music Character Writing Song

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

Anton du Beke

Family Parents Me Bond Living Our

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

Philip Schaff

Three Historical Kinds Prophetic

I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

Peter Sis

Picture Too Much Person Sometimes

You need to be your own individual.

Two Chainz

You Need Individual Own Your

I researched and wrote 'Muhammad Ali: His Life And Times' for two years.

Thomas Hauser

Life Two Years Muhammad Ali His Ali