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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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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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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. I wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so I was just looking for something more to put on the record.
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I think if you don't grow up with it, it's hard to miss something you never had.
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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?
