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.
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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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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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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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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
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What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.
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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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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.
