John Carpenter Quotes

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

John Carpenter

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TalentJustScoringHadFilms

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

Jenifer Lewis

LifeLoveChoicesLove LifeReason

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

Andrea Arnold

PeopleWonderI WonderDifferently

We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.

Sukarno

FaceFightingOvercomeNationWithin

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Simon Armitage

PoetryWorldStartYouChoosePlace

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Rob Sheffield

TodayGivingCreatingKnowStreet

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

CrazyChanceYouKnowWantNever

I love Charles Fuller.

Rutina Wesley

LoveI LoveFullerCharles

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Judah Friedlander

TimeCommitmentNightDoingYear

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

Jason Statham

WalkPeopleYouStreetBoredGet

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Joko Beck

BlessingThinkTroubleUnderstand

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

Doc Hastings

UnfairDoubleTaxationSimplyForm

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

Bruce Rauner

FreedomBelieveProblemBecomeMore

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