Steven Stucky Quotes
It's not possible to build a piece that stands successfully without talking about its shape. But if you talk too much, you lead people away from the music itself.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.
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It's not possible to build a piece that stands successfully without talking about its shape. But if you talk too much, you lead people away from the music itself.
