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Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Harrison Birtwistle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Door Think You Open Influences Come

My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.

Place More Old Melbourne Lived Take

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

Melvin Van Peebles

I Am Me Think Find Tenacious Most

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

Mean Single System Complex Function

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

Life God Die Because Who He

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

Health Experience Quality Finance

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Consequences Never Seems Actions

I like boysenberry. I have no idea what it is. And it sounds like poison - which is terrifying - but you can't hold a name against a flavor. If you did that, everyone would hate Crunchberries.

Hate Name You Everyone Hold Poison

Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.

Creative Place Vibrant Glasgow

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Jason Robert Brown

Light Feel Loss Year I Feel Goes

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Christopher Walken

Future Hope Best Talent People Plan

In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Day New York You Be Nice New Nice

I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.

Business Myself Progress Think You

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