W. H. Auden Quotes
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
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Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?
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I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, 'Here comes the fun - fun that knows its way around a dictionary.'
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
