Carter Burwell Quotes

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Carter Burwell

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• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Kind
  • Guys
  • Perform

• A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Control
  • Play
  • Tired

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

  

  Jack Vance

• No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Daily

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Sorry

• The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • High
  • Competition

• You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

  

  Bill Le
  • People
  • Brain

• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • House
  • Stupid

• I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Things
  • Influence
  • Keep

• Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Life
  • Erase
  • Expectancy

• If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

  

  Jascha Heifetz
  • Practice

• I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Up
  • High
  • Color

• I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Sleep
  • Inspired
  • Deadline