W. H. Auden Quotes
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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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If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
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All pity is self-pity.
