William Butler Yeats Quotes
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I never go wild with nails.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
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If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.
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I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
