Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.Stephen Spender
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard -
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh -
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt -
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Garth Hudson -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
Gavin Andresen -
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Wij leven allen, maar weten niet waarom en waarvoor, wij leven allen met het doel gelukkig te worden, we leven allen verschillend en toch gelijk.
Anne Frank -
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
Jacob Lew -
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
Brian Ferneyhough -
India is such a hospitable country.
Daria Werbowy -
The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
Doug Aitken -
I feel weird without lipstick. Even after the first time I wore a really neon pink or a really bright red, I felt really strange without it there. My lips are a main feature, so I feel naked without them.
Marina and the Diamonds
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
Jay IDK -
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
Bette Midler -
The smallest errors are always the best.
Moliere -
I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
Claude Shannon -
The experience of fear derives from primitive responses to threat where escape is thwarted in some way. People’s lives will be held hostage to fear until that visceral experience changes… Self-regulation depends on having a friendly relationship with your body. Without it you have to rely on external regulation — from medication, drugs like alcohol, constant reassurance, or compulsive compliance with the wishes of others.
Bessel van der Kolk -
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
Stephen Spender