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.
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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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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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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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I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it. When everybody has a smartphone, the ability for people to actually do something about violence goes up significantly.
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I think it’s more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one’s bedroom at a snap of one’s fingers. There is no mystique left.
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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.
