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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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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The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
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It really is about the heart of a woman that makes her beautiful.
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
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I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
