Carter Burwell Quotes
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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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.
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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.
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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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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.
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Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
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I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.
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I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
