Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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Action expresses priorities.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.
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Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
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I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Things that happen in a house within a family, because you're a child or because you want to keep the family together, you suffer things you might not have had to suffer if you weren't in that situation.
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
