Danny Elfman Quotes
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
