Arthur Honegger Quotes
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
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I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
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I've never been someone who dates all that much - I'm more of a serial monogamist.
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Too often she had seen the first indignation of disappointed parents at the marriage of the their children harden into a matter of pride, a matter of doggedness and principle, and finally become ridiculous. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love.
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I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
