Benjamin Britten Quotes

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Benjamin Britten

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• 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.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Live
  • Moments
  • Violence

• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Self

• You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Sound
  • Horizon

• I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Feeling
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Selling

• I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Work
  • Real
  • Day

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Single

• Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Good
  • May
  • Faith

• Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

  

  Ander Crenshaw

• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Great

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Funeral

• When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Friends
  • Desire
  • Relax

• Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Beginning
  • Grief

• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

  

  Benjamin Britten
  • Relax
  • Composer