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I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

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Randy Newman
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
Composer
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Journalist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.
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Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
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If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.
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It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.
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It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.
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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
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Rednecks always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.
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If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.
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Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.
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I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
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This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.
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