William Butler Yeats Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
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I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?