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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."

"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."
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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."

"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."

"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."

"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
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