Carter Burwell Quotes
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
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I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
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Some people kind of are afraid of me.
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I like quality over quantity.
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I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.
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I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.
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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
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I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
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I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
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Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
