Bear McCreary Quotes
If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.
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For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies.
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The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.
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I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.
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If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
