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Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

Harrison Birtwistle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Influence Piece Large Had

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

Melanie Scrofano

Honesty Playing Danger Going Genre

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Think Political Going Activity Well

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Focus People You Important Difficult

By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly.

Dreams Time Early Late Nothing More

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

I Am Theatre Doing Kind Never Would

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.

God Glory Keep Give Ourselves Then

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

World Serious Growing Enemies Whose

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

Feel Connection Violet I Feel

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

Reading Thought Play Watching Up

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

Bible End Used Speaking Alarm About

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Christopher Lasch

Lie Child Ownership New Desire Toys

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

Christian More Movement Than Any

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