Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
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Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
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I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
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The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.
