Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.
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I think anyone would be disappointed with a .230- something season. Now I've dealt with disappointment and hopefully I can bounce back and learn from it.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.
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In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
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I didn't have a record player.
