Danny Elfman Quotes
Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
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'One thing there's no getting by- I've been a wicked girl.' said I; 'But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!'
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Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices-he had already lost many things that he valued deeply-but it was the only way.
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My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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There was music all about us, we were growing quite forgetfulWe were only singing seamen from the dirt of Londontown.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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I know things that I need to work on in my life, things that I can be better at.
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The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.
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Actually, one of the things I enjoy about touring is going round and meeting people from all walks of life.
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Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.
