William Butler Yeats Quotes
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
