W. H. Auden Quotes
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.
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I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.
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If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
