Simon McBurney
Related JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS CHARLES BUKOWSKI CHLOE THURLOW A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE RICHARD YATES The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... TAMMARA WEBBER FRANCINE RIVERS C. JOYBELL C. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON CRAIG GROESCHEL FLANNERY O'CONNOR NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES C. JOYBELL C. The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO GERMANY KENT LEWIS CARROLL C. JOYBELL C. Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang... JAMES CLAVELL DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL CHRISTINA ENGELA ANTHONY LICCIONE When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. DARIO ARGENTO DEBASISH MRIDHA As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE GERMANY KENT Now is everythingKAREN HACKEL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than i... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yours... MARKUS PERSSON When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We... GARY F EVANS... You think maybe he thinks the felt is grass HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS Why would I need to see other women? You have more than enough personalities to keep me completely o... HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS You can't lose something that you never had HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS You're already falling in love with me.I'm gonna make you wish you were dead. HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS Benny boo boo...boo boo boo! HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS He's a pisser. HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS You're already falling in love with me.HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH C. JOYBELL C. The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH DOUGLAS ADAMS DOUGLAS ADAMS STEPHEN CHBOSKY ERNEST HEMINGWAY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE ERNEST HEMINGWAY RAINER MARIA RILKE ALBERT CAMUS
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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 I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says somethin... 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 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. 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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... 
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... 
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be... 
Don’t try to fit in; try to change. 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. 
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... 
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... 
It's nice to have things to look forward to. 
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... 
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... 
After Rilke's Letters
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... 
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. 
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope... 
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. 
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt... 
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv... 
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning... 
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t... 
The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world... 
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo... 
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... 
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. 
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 ... 
Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
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... 
Better your room than your company. 
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. 
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ... 
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. Th... 
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on th... 
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a we... 
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had pu... 
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another p... 
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep w... 
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips... 
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. 
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put t... 
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl... 