Randy Newman Quotes
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
