Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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Actors don't have real value.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!
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You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.
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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
