Carter Burwell Quotes

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
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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.

  

  Kate Winslet
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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.

  

  Tasha Smith
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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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • May
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• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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  • Think
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• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
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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.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Myself

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
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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.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
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• 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
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• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
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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.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • World
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• I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Work
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• Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • May
  • Society

• We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Lost

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Money
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• All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Melody