W. H. Auden Quotes
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
