W. H. Auden Quotes
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
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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.
D. J. MacHale
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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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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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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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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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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
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
Rachel Bloom
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
Taron Egerton
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
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I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
Yahya Jammeh
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
Nate Parker
