Carter Burwell Quotes
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Carter Burwell
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
Zooey Deschanel
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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
Samuel Beckett
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
W. Edwards Deming
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
Charice Pempengco
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My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
Paulo Coelho
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I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.
Jiang Qing
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
Jerry Lewis
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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Matthew Sweet
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Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.
James Vincent McMorrow
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When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
Kevin Whately
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I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
Anne Donovan
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I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.
Georges Perec
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I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.
Alex Gaskarth
All Time Low
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Carter Burwell
