"I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians."

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Source : "He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

Michael Nyman

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“I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.”

Source : "Mary-Kate Olsen in ‘Marie Claire’: I Wouldn’t Wish My Upbringing On Anyone". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.
“I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.”
“I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.”
“Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”
“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.”
“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.”
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”

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