Stephen Hough (Stephen Andrew Gill Hough) Quotes
Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Peace is its own reward.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
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Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
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Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.
