William Butler Yeats Quotes
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
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When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
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The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
