Stephen Hough (Stephen Andrew Gill Hough) Quotes
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I loved being in a band.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.
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Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
