Stephen Hough Quotes

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkLovePaintingThinkYouI Can

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

Jim C. Hines

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Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.

Sue Hubbell

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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Robert Fitzgerald

LanguageLivingYesVoicesUs

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

Ruth Rendell

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I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Matisyahu

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As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.

Mary Berry

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A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

Mike Lowry

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You have to understand, everyone's body was built to do something. I was built to do something, and that's how I was built. I think the world is realizing we were promoting one body type, and there have always been many.

Michelle Carter

WorldThinkYouBodyUnderstand

A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.

Misty Copeland

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Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Lucy Larcom

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When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

Jose Mourinho

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The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

Denise Mina

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