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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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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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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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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You either are or you're not.
