I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.
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The film scores, the operas, the string quartets, and the instrumentals. I feel free basically to slap down any ideas that interest me.Michael Nyman
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