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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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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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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I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.
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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.
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No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.
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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.
