Randy Newman Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
