Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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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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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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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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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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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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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
