Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
