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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."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"
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"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."
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"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."
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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."
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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."
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"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."
American
"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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"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
People
"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."
Choice
"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."
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"I think art can reflect tragedy."
Art
"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."
Beginning
"Art is not only about angst."
Art
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
Revolution
"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
Love
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