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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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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.
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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.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
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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.
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One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.
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The idea is not to restructure the economy as much as to seize the opportunities available that we didn't address before.
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Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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I closed the door like so many times, so many times beforeFelt like a scene on the cutting room floorWhen I let you walk away tonight without a wordI tried to sleep but the clock is stuck on thoughts of you and meA thousand more regrets unravelingIf you were here right now, I swear I'd tell you this
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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.
