#her

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#face #i #live #looks #me

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#got #into #left #mother #nothing

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. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#completely #different #different attitude #doing #five

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 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

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things. ↗

— Chili Davis

#career #i #important #individual #more

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

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#among #conceived #dedicated #disagree #distinguish

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#being #collected #date #daughter #dollar

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going