W. H. Auden Quotes
A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I love improvising.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.
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My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it's like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it's a complete dream come true.
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I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
