Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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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 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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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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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
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You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.
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It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
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I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
