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.

  

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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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• PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

  

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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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• 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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• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
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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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• 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.

  

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• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

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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
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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.

  

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

  

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• In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.

  

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• I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn't like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don't knock me down as much as they used to.

  

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• Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music
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• All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Melody