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Carter Burwell Quotes

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1955

Topics

Music Connecting Narrative Film

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

Discipline I Am People World Think

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

Words Feel Emotions Possible Try

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

Woman Man Boots Country Dangerous

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

Life Mind Me Impossible My Life

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

Today Time You True Nothing Always

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

People Me Hug Go Cry Up

My beauty icons - and this sounds cheesy - have a beauty that comes from inside.

Beauty Inside Cheesy Icons Sounds

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

Strength Live Yourself World Better

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Rose World Selfish Fairy Giant

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Reputation Texas Sometimes Irritating

Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.

Susan L. Taylor

Support Parents Need Fingers Just

I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

Sharon Van Etten

Business People Know Now Connected

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