W. H. Auden Quotes
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Quotes to Explore
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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Playing for the Washington Spirit, the 2013 season was one of the most difficult I have ever experienced.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
