Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
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As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
