Danny Elfman Quotes
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
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College can seem stressful, but you have just as much fun as you can. Those were good years. You didn't have to worry about bills or your 401(k). Life was so simple.
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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
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In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
