Randy Newman Quotes
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
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Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
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It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
