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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What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes.
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On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'
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I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
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One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.
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All pity is self-pity.
