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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
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"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."
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"Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end."
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"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."
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"I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."
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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."
Music
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
Age
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
Music
"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
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"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."
Time
"I don't think there is much American music."
Music
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
Music
"I always write the pieces I want to write."
Want
"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!"
Attitude
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