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.
Ira Sachs -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
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.
Gary Locke -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith -
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.
Dan Bucatinsky -
Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
Wayne Knight -
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx -
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.
Zac Efron -
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.
Ice Cube -
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.
Oren Peli -
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.
Carl Jung
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Valerie Solanas -
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
James Agee -
We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.
Patty Judge -
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin -
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.
Jeremy Grantham
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It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.
James Lankford -
'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
January Jones -
I liked models since I was 3 years old. As I grew older, I started developing a penchant towards makeup, pedicures, etc. I used to carry out the procedures at my home itself.
Pratyusha Banerjee -
I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
Ted Ligety -
She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'
Joe Haldeman -
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spender