Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
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I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
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Standing outside the fire;Standing outside the fire.Life is not tried, it is merely survivedIf you're standing outside the fire.
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The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
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The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
