Carter Burwell Quotes
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
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My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.
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Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
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I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
