W. H. Auden Quotes
I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
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I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.
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I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.
