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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."
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"It's the irrational things that interest me."
Interest
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
Ideas
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
Music
"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
Influence
"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."
Music
"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
Music
"I always write the pieces I want to write."
Want
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
Work
"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."
Music
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