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.Randy Newman
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
Samantha Bee -
My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
Carine Roitfeld -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch -
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 -
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor -
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 -
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon -
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven -
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 -
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 -
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Quincy Jones -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker -
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba -
Let's hope you feel better now.
Jack Kevorkian
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright -
Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
Kate Winslet -
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
Pat Quinn -
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