Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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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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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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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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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
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I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
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I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
