Carter Burwell Quotes
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
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I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.
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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
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I actually love pressure.
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I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
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Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
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I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my friends. It started like that, and then it went into more music-y stuff.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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I like business and personal life to be distinct.
