W. H. Auden Quotes

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

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• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
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• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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  • Product
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• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
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• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
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• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
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• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
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• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
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• It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
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• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
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• These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Life
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• Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Death
  • Attitude

• Musicians today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Sound
  • Musicians
  • Studio

• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Sound
  • Picnic