William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.
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I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
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He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
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I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
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Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
