W. H. Auden Quotes
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
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We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.
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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.
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I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.
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It depends on the generation and gender. The males usually go for 'Police Academy,' and the young women now in their late 20s or so go for 'Punky Brewster.' I am recognized quite frequently because they're still playing that stuff on television!
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At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
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All pity is self-pity.
