W. H. Auden Quotes
I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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We would only multiply the number of victims. Our duty is to strengthen the state and defend the people, why, then, should we publish your book.
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I was not an easy kid.
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Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
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I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
