Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
