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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When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.
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When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?
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I'm not fashionable.
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Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
