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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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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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.
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Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
