Score Quotes - Page 35

• I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Guitar, Different

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Musician, Ensemble

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• I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!

  Geoff Zanelli

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Writing

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• The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

  Ray Bradbury

  Issues, Tests, Students

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

  Anne Waldman

  Ocean, Voice, Musical

  Source: www.poetspath.com

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• Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle.

  Amy Webb

  Lists, Needles

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• My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

  Dada Maravilha

  Football, Technique, Shooting

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• I am the servant of my score.

  Grantland Rice

  Servant

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• One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Rage, Scholar

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.8297, Delphi Classics

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• Tenors get women by the score.

  James Joyce

  Tenors

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.240, GENERAL PRESS

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• I like Balotelli: he's even crazier than me. He can score a winner, then set fire to the hotel.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Fire, Winner, Hotel

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• So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Teacher, Jobs

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• Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Enemy, Bills, Warren Buffet

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• The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today.

  Bill Bonner

  Children, Independent, Winning

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court

  Stephen Fry

  Girl, Men, Issues

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Book, Knowing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, School, Identity

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• Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Children, Military

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• Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

  James Q. Wilson

  Drunk, Community, Unjust

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.132, American Enterprise Institute

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• He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Intelligent, Rocks, Talking

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• It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.

  Eric Fellner

  Song, Jobs, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• The greatest player in the world. Ronaldinho? Absolutely. I just can't get enough of watching him play - he's a delight for the eye. His technique is incredible, his touch, his vision, he scores and he orchestrates everything. He's just the complete player. I know how difficult it is for a forward playing at this level, but for him it's so easy. He does it every single game and it's just unbelievable to watch.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Eye, Player, Games

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