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W. H. Auden Quotes

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

Topics

Relationship Run Relationships Begin

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Joel Edgerton

Good People Wait Doing You Find

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.

Matthew Settle

Love Great Past Face Kind Human

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

Aly Raisman

Best Team Thinking I Can First Just

When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.

Sophie Okonedo

Good Know Nice Actor Up Something

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

Shirley Bassey

Men Diamonds You Never Leave

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

Robert Wilson

Life Work New York Enough Year You

This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.

Ronald D. Moore

Love Hate Democracy Saying Care You

Once I get on a roll, it's hard to stop me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Me Stop Hard Roll Get Once

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Jonathan Kozol

Education Literature Paris Harvard

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fear Reflection I Am Down Wall More

It takes me ages to write stuff.

Chris Lilley

Me Write Stuff Takes Ages

I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.

David Shields

Said Everything Disagree Ever John