Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.Harrison Birtwistle
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
Madeline Kahn -
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix -
I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
Mallory Jansen -
We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
Patrick Ness -
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Vance Joy -
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson -
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
Kate Clinton -
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian -
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
Barry Marshall -
I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
Nastia Liukin -
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
Yolandi Visser -
Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Ian Anthony Dale -
I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
Yvonne Strahovski -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
Zac Efron -
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle