Carter Burwell Quotes
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
