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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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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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 understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.
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I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
