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
-
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.
-
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.
-
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
-
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.'
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
-
I don't like when I look too cluttered.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Personal style says so much about who you are. What you wear can entice different things from within you.
-
On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
-
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
-
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
-
I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.
-
WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of 'WFT-II, unlike such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus ...' but it was a start.
-
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.
-
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.
