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I play a very streamlined pia...

I play a very streamlined piano.

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It took me a long time to fig...

It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

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I have an Otari with a Korg T...

I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.

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Blake Edwards has set up an e...

Blake Edwards has set up an extraordinary combination of moods in 'Peter Gunn.' When you stop to analyze it, you can't find the boundaries where the music stops and the show takes over.

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Hopefully the music of the fu...

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

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It's very difficult to be fun...

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

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I score everything by hand on...

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

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I just write when the bell ri...

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

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Quite a few of The Rolling St...

Quite a few of The Rolling Stones records have had a great honesty about them. In fact, I would put them side-by-side with a 'Treasury of Folk Music' collection, containing all the prison songs, the farm and road-gang songs that were recorded on the spot in the Deep South.

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Writing music is very, very c...

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

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Most everything I've ever wri...

Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'

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You know, I started in movies...

You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things will come on - they use my things as background music all the time, in somebody else's arrangements and It catches my ear.

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My kids will come to me and a...

My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!

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Basically, I'm a melodic writ...

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

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Music forced into the air you...

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

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I've turned down many picture...

I've turned down many pictures, mostly because I didn't like them.

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When someone asks me to do a ...

When someone asks me to do a score, I look at the picture two or three times. I never watch the rushes to pick up the mood as quickly as I can. If it's something I want to do, just watching the film will start the wheels turning.

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You know, directors are funny...

You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to score the picture, you're fooling with their child. They want to know everything that happens to the score - and why.

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When I first began to work in...

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

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Themes on some TV shows are o...

Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....