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Michael Nyman Quotes

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

Michael Nyman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: March 23, 1944

Topics

Work Good Good Things Free Someone

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Jermaine Fowler

Wait Someone Back Never Passionate

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Ani DiFranco

You Same Like Please

It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued I.D. on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday, and cast a vote on Tuesday.

Sonny Perdue

Monday People Friday Country Vote

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

RJ Mitte

Excuses You Say Run Never Out

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

Mick Ralphs

Simple Situation Say London Become

It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very large field, and it's always in some ways been the poor sister, or the ugly sister, to experimental biology.

Michael Levitt

Science Ugly Sister Biology Nice

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Nobody Being Wants Injured

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

Joseph Bruchac

School Practice Law Reading House

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

Dennis Haysbert

Work God Age Jealous Think Kid

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

Dennis Quaid

Education Teacher Drama Little Us

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Devon Werkheiser

Doing Acting Way Never Out Chores

Getting knocked out in your underwear in the Octagon is pretty embarrassing, but people are like, 'The guy he's fighting is really, really good, and he is a UFC fighter, so he can still beat up 99 percent of the world,' so it's not that embarrassing.

Brendan Schaub

Good People World Fighting Fighter