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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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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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 have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Restaurants don't cater properly for celiac sufferers, and neither do supermarkets.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
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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.
