Stephen Hough (Stephen Andrew Gill Hough) Quotes

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

Stephen Hough

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• Commitment
• Loved
• Piano

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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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Heart
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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Everything
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• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
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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.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
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• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
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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.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Great
  • Future
  • Commitment

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Improv

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Words
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Loved
  • Rejection
  • Believing

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love
  • Loved
  • More

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• '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.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Friend
  • Loved
  • Chaos

• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Where

• As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Life
  • Training
  • Existence

• America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

  

  Simon Schama
  • America
  • Words
  • Idea

• It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Year

• I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Space

• My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Words
  • Commitment
  • Loved