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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When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
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Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.
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One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
