Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Stephen Spender

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• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.

  

  Jack McCollough
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• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

  

  Ice T
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• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.

  

  Kay Cannon
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• I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

  

  Kristen Bell
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• The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

  

  Jerome Powell
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• I'm in the communications business.

  

  Beeban Kidron
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• Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

  

  Mark Warner
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• I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

  

  Jim Murphy
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• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
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• Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
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• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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  • Night
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• Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Problem
  • Memories
  • Creativity