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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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
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You either are or you're not.
