T Bone Burnett Quotes
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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I'm a dork!
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
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When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
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I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.
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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
