Carter Burwell Quotes
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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My education was very tough.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
