Carter Burwell Quotes
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
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It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
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Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
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When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
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There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.
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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
