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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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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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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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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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.
