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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Inspiration

• I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.

  

  Mark Fuhrman

• I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Selfish

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sleep

• I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Sleep

• T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

  

  David Fizdale

• 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