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Stephen Hough Quotes

Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New Say Smell Sound Piano Who

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Jessie J

Struggle I Am Me Artist Now Made

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

Robert Kennedy

Men Logic Morality Minds Lead Laws

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Siobhan Davies

Discipline Problems Self-Discipline

When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.

Sia

London Years Lived Eight

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Robert Baden-Powell

Listening You Observation Will Talk

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

Rooney Mara

Character Black Just Because She

I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.

Doris Day

Good People Me Care End Week

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

Christian Bale

Dark Go Misery Attraction Certainly

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Alfred Jarry

Music Think You Audience Force

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

Sharon Creech

Beautiful Children Strong Language

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

Thomas Mallon

History People Writing You Back

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

Mark Fuhrman

Memory People Cold Think You Look