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 really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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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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The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.
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I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
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Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.
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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.
