Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.
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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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Production wants a miracle on every movie. They want us to do something new and amazing - but then they give you a 55-year-old actor with sciatica who doesn't want to train.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
