Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Harrison Birtwistle

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MeThingsInterestIrrational

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

John Dos Passos

Old FriendsSmallFriendsGrowingUp

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Jean-Luc Godard

JourneyMoviesNeverSeenEvenKnew

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

Tommy Hilfiger

TalentRootsBackGoNewGoing

My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.

Mike Myers

WorkLoveDayHappyParentsMe

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Michelangelo Antonioni

TimePracticeIgnoreLongRulesNow

The Internet is going to have a bigger impact on content creators than the television ever had. The reason why that's the case is that suddenly you're able to tell stories 24/7 in the home, out of the home, in every room of the home. A television screen can be in your pocket through a smartphone.

Jason Kilar

HomeImpactInternetYouTelevision

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

DMX

RespectPeopleTreatWantSameDirt

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

Dianne Feinstein

WorkGoodIntelligenceElementary

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Clive Barker

ExperienceChaosWorldThinkTrying

My sister has been there for me through everything.

Brad Goreski

MeSisterEverythingThroughBeen

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

Ashley Rickards

LifeCharacterYourselfThinkYou

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

HeroDayMedicalMeAliveFirst

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