Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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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 famous, you're not free.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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You're only as good as your last dish.
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The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
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There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
