Fred Frith Quotes

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

Fred Frith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 17, 1949

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According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

John Norman

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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Michael Cunningham

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I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.

Steve Wynn

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If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Milton Glaser

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I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

Diego Costa

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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Deepak Chopra

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I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

Chris Gibson

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Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

Craig Bruce

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There's definitely a value in being literate.

Chris Van Allsburg

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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Clifton Fadiman

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At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

Chuck Palahniuk

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As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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