Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.
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Women are smart enough and strong enough to make their own health care decisions and should be able to make these decisions in private, consulting with their doctors and families as they choose.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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You either are or you're not.
