Simon McBurney
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MILNE REINCE PRIEBUS BROOKE SHIELDS I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and e... TED SHAWN ARI GRAYNOR ERIN MORGENSTERN COLIN FIRTH EMMA TENNANT KARAN JOHAR FERDINAND MOUNT CHUANG TZU Most people know me from 'The Office,' where I played a guy who grunted out three or four wo... DAVID DENMAN BILL COSBY Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly SOTONYE ANGA Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That'... PAUL LEPAGE If I wasn't tired and could get some words out of my mouth, I'd still say something then. CARLOS ROGERS Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'... BEN KATCHOR Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your dau... VICTORIA SECUNDA I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every... EVAN GLODELL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON DANICA PATRICK LYDIA MARIA CHILD LYDIA M. CHILD I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environm... ERIN MCKEAN KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON C. JOYBELL C. CAMILLE PAGLIA I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's wri... BILL CALLAHAN I've always written about things that cause me to feel something. IRIS DEMENT DENNIS QUAID NICK HARKAWAY I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed. JORDAN L. HAWK I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good thin... NATALIE MARTINEZ I fell to my knees screaming. I never in my life thought that I would hear those words come out of h... KARLA SULLIVAN Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling st... GLENDA MILLARD PAUL AUSTER BEN AFFLECK DAVE MATTHEWS PETER DINKLAGE Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the ... JIM CAPALDI I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound. SALLY GARDNER CHRIS ROCK MIKE BIRBIGLIA MARY-LOUISE PARKER Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to... MARY ROACH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE As long as the words in your mouth, it is your own; when they are once spoken, they are another’s. VIKRANT PARSAI I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS CORNELIA FUNKE CARRIE FISHER These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ... AMANDA GRACE URSULA K. LE GUIN Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words. BERENICE BEJO I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that parti... HELEN VENDLER When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of ... GEORGE EZRA On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There wer... ROBERT KNEPPER TAVI GEVINSON I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right wor... MARGARET HADDIX JAMES BRADY RANDY PAUSCH When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how ... BRANDY NORWOOD JENNY SLATE When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 son... MAC DEMARCO Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's... ERIN MCKEAN CHUCK PALAHNIUK ...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more... CHEYENNE BERANDI BRYAN CRANSTON I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN ELVIS COSTELLO IZAAK WALTON I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me.... DANA FOX R.J. PALACIO BRYSON TILLER It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twi... JHENE AIKO KATE FORSYTH ALFRED TENNYSON There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have ... JORDYN WIEBER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON JAMES ARTHUR JAMES FENTON Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written word... SARAH HOLMAN
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Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery... SIMON MCBURNEY In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the hono... SIMON MCBURNEY In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. SIMON MCBURNEY Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal... SIMON MCBURNEY Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful... SIMON MCBURNEY There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what ... SIMON MCBURNEY We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural.... SIMON MCBURNEY 'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consci... SIMON MCBURNEY Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject ma... SIMON MCBURNEY I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. SIMON MCBURNEY Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words n... SIMON MCBURNEY 'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect th... SIMON MCBURNEY I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativi... SIMON MCBURNEY When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half lat... SIMON MCBURNEY I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the sto... SIMON MCBURNEY Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. SIMON MCBURNEY I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildi... SIMON MCBURNEY I didn't want it to close, it's the best place to practice because it has a good track. BRADY MCBURNEY It's speed, speed and focus. BRADY MCBURNEY It's fun, it's not just a hobby it's a game. BRADY MCBURNEY it's not as easy as you think it is. BRADY MCBURNEY SIMON SINEK Always the journey, never the destination. SIMON RATTLE The majority of my work is about preparation. TARYN SIMON I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere... TARYN SIMON My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. TARYN SIMON In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ... TARYN SIMON I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe... TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON HOGGART Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. SIMON RATTLE SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai... SIMON CALLOW HERBERT SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand. SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON SIMON HOGGART SIMON HOGGART SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w... SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with... ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest. ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money. ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo... SIMON BEAUFOY Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. SIMON TRAVAGLIA I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i... SIMON COWELL I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ... SIMON COWELL I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD SIMON HOGGART SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING The golden age is before us, not behind us. ST. SIMON NEIL SIMON Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow. SIMON DACH SIMON SINEK There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it... SIMON GREENLEAF In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli... SIMON GREENLEAF SIMON MORDEN SIMON MASHALLA SIMON SINEK TED SIMON SIMON HOGGART NEIL SIMON SIMON HOGGART TED SIMON JOHN SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SCHAMA JOHN SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON WIESENTHAL NEIL SIMON SIMON FORMAN SIMON FORMAN ELLEN SIMON Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while... SIMON FOWLER PAUL SIMON SIMON CAMERON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING DAVID SIMON SIMON HOGGART DAVID SIMON DAVID SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON SINEK For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ... SIMON COWELL The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to... SIMON SPURR It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede... SIMON REX American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. SIMON PEGG There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev... SIMON PEGG SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SCHAMA SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON SINEK CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK SIMON HELBERG SIMON NEWCOMB CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING HERBERT SIMON JOHN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON KUZNETS SIMON NEWCOMB If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. SIMON COWELL My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. SIMON COWELL When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables... SIMON COWELL I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' SIMON COWELL I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical,... SIMON COWELL The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed a... SIMON COWELL I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. SIMON COWELL I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do i... SIMON COWELL You are a saucy little thing aren't you? SIMON COWELL Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. SIMON COWELL I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,... SIMON COWELL The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. SIMON COWELL I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can&#... SIMON COWELL I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly... SIMON COWELL
I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage tha... 
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a ... 
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like &#... 
There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel li... 
These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands. 
Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something ... 
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you... 
I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it. 
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I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find t... 
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I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A se... 
People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly pho... 
The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I ... 
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a m... 
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it... 
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, ... 
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel... 
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor... 
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I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and a... 
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When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th... 
I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I... 
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone. 
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The words walked right out of my mouth. 
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. 
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I sometimes find it half a sin,
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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. 
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... 
Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects an... 
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ... 
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews... 
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. 
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. 