Stephen Hough (Stephen Andrew Gill Hough) Quotes
Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
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I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
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If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
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I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
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Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.
