Carter Burwell Quotes

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

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• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Different
  • Style

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Body

• Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Power
  • Science

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Stars
  • Looking
  • Gutter

• I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Great
  • Fashion

• I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Moving

• But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart

• The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • November

• Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

  

  Philip Sidney

• In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Results
  • Experiments
  • Circumstance

• I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • Writing

• Music is an important part of my writing process.

  

  Peter James
  • Music
  • Important
  • Writing

• I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Hopefully