W. H. Auden Quotes
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
