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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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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.
