Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I love taking chances.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
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A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
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The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.
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Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
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There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).
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You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
