Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
