Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
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I get depressed at airports.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.
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Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
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Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
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I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
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Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.
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The American Dream is really money.
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I was just trying to say that it's unnecessary; you don't need to label yourself. I guess it came off the wrong way, because then everyone labelled me as gay. That's not what I was trying to say. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course!
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My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
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I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
