Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
