W. H. Auden Quotes

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

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• 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
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• I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?

  

  Nas
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• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
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• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
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• People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

  

  Bill Flores
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• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  

  Mother Teresa
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• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.

  

  Alan Stern
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• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • Music