Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Brian Ferneyhough

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• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Wonder

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I never thought of being disadvantaged.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Being

• The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

  

  Babyface
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Quality

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Change
  • Party
  • Supporters

• I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Know
  • Me
  • Reserve

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • World
  • Country
  • May

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Mom

• It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Never Too Late

• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

  

  George Cukor
  • Business
  • Horse

• My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Broken

• If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Fans
  • Now

• You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Quality

• Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Death
  • Success

• Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Nature
  • Success
  • Failure