Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Birtwistle

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StoryOperaAnglesDifferentMany

I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

Jill Scott

LifeWorkLoveYouKnowWhy

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

Megan McCafferty

LifeBrainDoingChooseRightUp

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

John Mayer

WordsMeTalkingMagicYouPerson

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

St. Vincent

MusicStoryThinkAppreciateYou

Probably the greatest match in my career, and really put me on the match as a main event guy and paved the way for what I was to become, was Wrestlemania 13, with the one and only, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

MeCareerWayBecomeGuyGreatest

I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.

Tracy Lawrence

DayEnd Of The DayEndTurtleRun

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

Tony Rock

WrongInevitableTroubleGoUpKids

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

Rutina Wesley

CryActor

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.

Sebastian Thrun

EducationLiveTimeHigher Education

My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

Scott Aukerman

MoneyBeginningPeopleSayingGrow

I'm against people downloading music.

Noel Gallagher

MusicPeopleAgainstDownloading

I think somebody's got to be cutting-edge. It just depends how you want to market your magazines and how big you want them to be. We look upon competition as what it is. It's there, you pay attention to it, but you don't live by it. You have to go on and grind it out day to day and do the best you can with your magazine every single day.

Linda Johnson Rice

LiveBestDayCompetitionThinkYou

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