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Gavin Bryars Quotes

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 16, 1943

Topics

Music People Feelings Way Ordinary

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Work Hard Work Determination Tears

Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.

Walk Garden Summer Will Spirit More

Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!

Day Hair Pink You Know One Day

Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.

Yourself You Entertainment Center

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

Change Direction Oak Falling Just

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

Time Growing Up Enough Lost Healthy

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

Hair Feet Ship Neck Whistle Four

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

Quality People Evil Movies Heroism

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

Washington Ambassador Prime Almost

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

Good People Me Research Writing Oh

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Achievement Death You Own Industry

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

Christian Louboutin

Nature Hate High Heels Wild Useless

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