W. H. Auden Quotes
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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Drugs scared me.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
