Danny Elfman Quotes
You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.
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I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
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You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!
