Danny Elfman Quotes
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.Danny Elfman
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
Jackie Speier -
'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
Gabrielle Reece -
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
Felix Dennis -
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
Ed Weeks
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
Gautam Gambhir -
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
An actor has to embody a role.
Taylor Hackford -
I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
Pamela Anderson -
You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
Victor LaValle
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
Natalie Dormer -
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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.
Idina Menzel -
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
Patricia Schroeder -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Mallory Ortberg
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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells -
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
John Adams -
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
Marc Wallice -
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
Lev Grossman -
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.
Danny Elfman