Carter Burwell Quotes
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
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It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
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My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.
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It's the story of my life; I spend my life reorganising my closet. My husband thinks I'm crazy, and I change the rules every six months.
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.
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The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.
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I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
