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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music Id been writing since I was 11. – Harrison Birtwistle

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The theatre only knows what its 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

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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that dont meet. And then your friends say: Its terrific! – Harrison Birtwistle

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Im not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. Ive never had that attitude to music. – Harrison Birtwistle

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We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, wed never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. – Jon Ronson

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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think were just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. – David Herbert Donald

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