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Thomas Newman Quotes

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 20, 1955

Topics

Good Experience Ideas Out Carry How

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

Television Anchor Days Being Cable

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

New York World You New Kind Smell

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

Family Mother Me Back Born First

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Time People Think You Know Kind

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

Baseball Woven Million Tapestry Loom

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

Me Research Surroundings My Own Real

When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.

Tomorrow Mindset First Over Going

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

Buildings Creating Now Everything

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

Domhnall Gleeson

Good Movies Write Taste Good Taste

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Christine Lagarde

Father Perspective Birth Everything

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Broderick Crawford

Business Million Made Upwards Bucks

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

Life Feel My Life Worth You Values

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