W. H. Auden Quotes

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
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• I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
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• I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

  

  Natalie du Toit
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  • Change
  • Losing

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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• It's something I am confident about. It gives me an adrenaline rush - who wouldn't want want to wear beautiful clothes and jewellery and look wonderful - it's a dream job for many.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

  

  Karl Urban
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• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

  

  Abraham Cahan
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• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
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• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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• I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
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• There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
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• You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Die

• I'm the type of person who commits to the fullest to whatever I'm doing.

  

  G-Dragon

• Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

  

  W. H. Auden
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