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 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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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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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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Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
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Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.
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I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.
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True life is elsewhere.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
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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.
