James Horner Quotes

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

James Horner

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Car

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Men
  • Blow

• I've been really in touch with my girly side.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Really
  • Touch

• Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

  

  David O. Selznick
  • Writing

• Sexism is real.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Real

• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Sometimes

• I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

  

  James Horner
  • Writing