Randy Newman Quotes
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.
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'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
