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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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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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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Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.
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I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
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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.
