Danny Elfman Quotes
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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Women are sacred.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!
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I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.
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When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.
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In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
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I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
