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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.
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When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
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I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.
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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.
