William Butler Yeats Quotes
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I don't need to impress children.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
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I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
