Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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You've got to be realistic.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.
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I don't think there is much American music.
