W. H. Auden Quotes
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.
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I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
