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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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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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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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
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Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.
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Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
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Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that that person said. It really behooves people in the public eye to know what's in the zeitgeist and to have opinions on it. It becomes a thing of is this genuine, or is this just a way for celebrities to keep themselves relevant in a time when this is obviously a hot topic?
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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.
