Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
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The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
