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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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Randy Newman
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
Composer
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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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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.
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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
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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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Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.
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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
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Things aren't black and white in the world.
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They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
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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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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
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Short people got no reason to live.
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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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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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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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You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
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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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This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?
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