W. H. Auden Quotes
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.W. H. Auden
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
Fay Wray -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike -
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
Hailee Steinfeld -
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. Simpson -
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
Kate Beckinsale
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
Tamala Jones -
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
Walter Jon Williams -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
Felicia Day -
I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking -
When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
Becky G -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Naomi Judd -
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
Iain Sinclair -
I never starved myself.
Tatjana Patitz
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I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
Walter Murch -
President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.
Christopher Buckley -
With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series.
Martin Campbell -
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden