Benjamin Britten Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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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.
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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.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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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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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
