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Harrison Birtwistle

"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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Donna Grant

"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

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Donna Grant

"I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,..."

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Donna Grant

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

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Donna Grant

"I just started watching KingDom Hospital series by Stephen King - Pretty Interesting Film. I just continue watching the series 11.22.63 incrediable film. It's wonderful that you can go in the past, who doesn't want to do this?"

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Donna Grant

"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."

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Donna Grant

"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."

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Donna Grant

"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."

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Donna Grant

"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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Donna Grant

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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Donna Grant

"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

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"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"

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Harrison Birtwistle
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."

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