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"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."

"I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end."

"At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years."

"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."

"It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."

"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

"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!"

"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."

"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."
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