Stephen Hough (Stephen Andrew Gill Hough) Quotes
I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.
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I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
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I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
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I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.
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I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.
