W. H. Auden Quotes
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
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From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
