William Butler Yeats Quotes
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.
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I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
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I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.
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I think it's inspired. It's her mission. It's her goal. I think it shows the kids that there is something to be done in the world.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
