Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
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The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally...
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I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.
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Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.
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Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
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Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek.
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
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I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.
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The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.
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I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.
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I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.
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It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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Never being, but always at the edge of Being.
