Danny Elfman Quotes
You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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I got a granite chin.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.
