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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

W. H. Auden

Experience

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

Kevyn Aucoin

People

Passion

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

Rene Auberjonois

People

Voice

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

Rene Auberjonois

People

Theater

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Lee Atwater

Thought

People

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.