Ennio Morricone Quotes
It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Russia is not a homogenous country; it's a very fragmented country.
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I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.
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I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
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It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
