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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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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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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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
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I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.
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I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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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.
