W. H. Auden Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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This love is silent.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I remain as committed as ever to working across party lines with anyone who believes we must invest in the future of our economy by revitalizing our transportation infrastructure, ensuring every child is getting a world class education, and spurring research and development of new technologies.
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If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.
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In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
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Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
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Pilates is great.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
