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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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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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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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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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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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Value is what you get.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
