Danny Elfman Quotes
It'll say, 'Danny Elfman, who wrote the theme to 'The Simpsons,' etcetera...That's what I'll be remembered for.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I do not support a livable wage.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
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It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
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I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
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Who are you to judge the life I live? I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.
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It'll say, 'Danny Elfman, who wrote the theme to 'The Simpsons,' etcetera...That's what I'll be remembered for.
