Ramin Djawadi Quotes
Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.
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I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.
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Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.
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When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.
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The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
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I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.
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This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
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"One of the first things I remember is my mum doing the housework to The Supremes. When you hear music like that when you're young, it stays with you."
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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
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Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
