W. H. Auden Quotes
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
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I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.
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I like to read. Autobiographies.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
