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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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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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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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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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When Luke and Laura dated in General Hospital when I was a kid, I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because lets face it: he raped her… and then they got married. Theres all kinds of things that TV does to relationships. – Lisa Edelstein

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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. Thats the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California. – Josh Schwartz

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