W. H. Auden Quotes
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
