Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
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The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
