Randy Newman Quotes
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
Samantha Bee
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
Carine Roitfeld
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Eddie Murphy
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
Garret Dillahunt
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
Zendaya
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
Ian Beattie
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
A. J. Cook
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Quincy Jones
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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Consistency for me is everything.
Alexei Navalny
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I'm going to try to be a better guy, a better man, better husband.
Jose Reyes
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
Harrison Ford
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Nigel Kneale
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Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.
Pardis Sabeti
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman