Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

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• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

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• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
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• I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

  

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• I'm a songwriter first.

  

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• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

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• Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

  

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• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  

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• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

  

  Nalini Singh
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• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  

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• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
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• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
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• Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

  

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• If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

  

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• When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

  

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• The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.

  

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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  

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• I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

  

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• ...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

  

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• Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

  

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• I myself have participated in girl-on-girl shows for men that would ask for it, of which were very, very many. It is a popular request, especially at bachelor parties. It also paid a much higher dividend. Also when I worked the escort services, certain male/female clients would call and ask for a male/male team and the escort services that I worked for provided this specific request.

  

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• Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

  

  Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Firsts
  • Pieces
  • Encouragement