Carter Burwell Quotes

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Carter Burwell

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  T-Pain
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• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

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• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

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• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

  

  Najib Razak
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• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

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• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.

  

  Karl Malone
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• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

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• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
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• Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

  

  Kent Nerburn
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• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Up
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• What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Alone

• The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

  

  Lynn Collins
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• The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Up
  • Present

• I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Music
  • Film
  • Listening