Carter Burwell Quotes
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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Sadat made us feel more secure.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors... Were women to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.
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I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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It's funny because the action figures are cool, and then I enjoy the magazines because that's me. Obviously, the fans are wonderful - they're so excited - but I'm not Rey, and people tend to not be able to differentiate the two.
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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
