W. H. Auden Quotes
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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Location is the prime thing we are selling.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
