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Simon McBurney

"When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger."

-- Simon McBurney

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“boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.”

Source : Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin
“The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.”
“O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."”
“People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.”
“I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.”
“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American”
“Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.”
“As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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