Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
