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.

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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

• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• 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

• It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good

• Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mean
  • Goal
  • Goals

• Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

  

  Sallust
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Virtue

• Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

  

  William Rees-Mogg
  • Truth
  • Governments
  • Auditors

• 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