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"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."
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"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
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"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."
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"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
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"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories."
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"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."
Time

"There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question."
Now

"It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am."
Love

"It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second."
Values

"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."
Opinion

"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here."
Music

"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."
Experience

"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."
Film

"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."
Desire

"The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult."
Beauty
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