T Bone Burnett Quotes
If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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My father had very little formal education.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
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As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
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I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like 'Hold On! I'm Comin'' and 'Knock on Wood' and 'Midnight Hour.'
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We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
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If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
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If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
