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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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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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've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.
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Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!
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I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
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I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.
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But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
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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.
