Gavin Bryars Quotes
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
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Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
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I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
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I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
