Carter Burwell Quotes
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
Feist
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
Malcolm X
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
Rachael Ray
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
Rabih Alameddine
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
Candice Millard
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
Zara Larsson
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
Ed Weeks
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
D. H. Lawrence
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
Lewis Black
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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Charles Bass
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In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
Brandon Boyd
Incubus
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
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I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.
Mark Pincus
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There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.
John Cassavetes
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell
