W. H. Auden Quotes
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I take my work seriously.
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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
