"I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did."

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Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

Richard Rodney Bennett

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“Everything is beautiful in its own way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ray Stevens from Mar 10, 2014
“One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.”
“My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.”
“There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously I think it's really important to look back at your history, and that's why I think things like Pride are important. It's not necessarily about your experience of life, it's not about whether you find it difficult to be gay; it's about the fact that people have fought over hundreds of years for this to be okay, and also that there are many countries in the world where it's still not, and it's very dangerous to be gay.”
“All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.”
“Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.”

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