"Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing."

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Elmer Bernstein

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“The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.”

Source : "U.S.-Soviet Relations, A History" by John Corry, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1984.
“The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.”

Source : "Chancellor determined not to change course in the fight against inflation". The Times, March 11, 1981.
“A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.”
“Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile.”
“Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.”

Source : "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.
“Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.”
“On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.”
“Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.”

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