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Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

Harrison Birtwistle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: July 15, 1934

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Attitude Time Theatre Doing Week

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

Jesse Williams

People Me Democracy Speak Voting

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus Christ

Life Father Truth I Am Me Way

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

Johan Lindeberg

Style Yourself Balance Easy Find

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.

Jenny Zhang

Success Parenting Perfection Succeed

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

John Grisham

Time Me Writing Free Desk Something

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

Time Art Death Study Been Would

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

End Places Talk Box Up Little

It's not easy to run a social media account over a long period of time, but we love communicating with our fans every day and night.

Love Time Day Social Media Night

Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.

Lou Ferrigno

Life Good Power Myself Me Feel Good

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

Diana DeGarmo

Singing Loved Matter My Own Always

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Christopher Lasch

Advertising Economics Want Anything

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Allen Klein

Good System Laughing Your Also