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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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
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I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
