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 conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.
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I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain - I've always had a soft spot for this little club.
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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.
