Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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I'm really a normal person.
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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.
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What makes the Pastor-CFR Council on Foreign Relations plan remarkable is that those who would abolish America are out of the closet. The penultimate step to world government, a North American Union built on the model of the European Union, to one day merge with it in a World Union of Nations and Peoples, is before us on the table.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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I am very far away from being angry. I really don't get angry most of the time. I am a patient person.
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I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
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I'm a citizen of the world.
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My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'
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Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
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I have never even wondered about the comparative standing of writers. I don't understand that. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product is turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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You can make your life whatever you want it to be.
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There is a certain justice in criticism.
