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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! ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#bits #friends #like #little #little bits

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #apple #breeds #compulsive #devoured

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ↗

— Bette Davis

#good #good actors #i #keep #life

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ↗

— Donald Davis

#anywhere #could #created #die #discovered

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

I don't think there is much American music. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#american music #i #much #music #think

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

— Harrison Birtwistle

#door #i #i think #influences #open

It's the irrational things that interest me. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#irrational #irrational things #me #things

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing