Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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I love dressing up.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
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While, like a ghastly rapid river,Through the pale doorA hideous throng rush out foreverAnd laugh - but smile no more.
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The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
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I was blessed enough to talk to my grandfather the night before he passed, and he told me that everything was going to be okay, and I know he wanted me continue and do my best, be happy, and that's what keeps me going.
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For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
