Stephen Hough Quotes

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1961

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In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Jodi Kantor

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It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Joe Gibbs

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Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

John Fleming

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The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

Andy Griffith

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One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

Corbin Bernsen

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After 'Student Of The Year,' when I played that baby-doll, diva character, I knew I would be stereotyped, and I wanted to break that image of me. I loved that role, but I don't want to be attached to one particular genre, so 'Highway' was a blessing in disguise.

Alia Bhatt

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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

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I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

Susan Straight

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I wouldn't mind taking a stab at... I'd love to take a shot at 'Doctor Strange' at some point.

Mark Waid

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In fact, I'm a geek.

Kelli Garner

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