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"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings."
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"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
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"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
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"I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh."
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"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically."
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"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."
Thought
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
Reflection
"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
Work
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
Practice
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
Nature
"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
Achievement
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
Poems
"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."
Nothing
"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."
Creation
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
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