W. H. Auden Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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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.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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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.
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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.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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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.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
