Ennio Morricone Quotes
I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I always played to win.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I made just about every mistake a person could make before God came into my heart. If some of those painful experiences can help someone avoid the same mistakes I made, then perhaps my heartache was not totally in vain.
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A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'
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... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
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At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
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I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
