William Butler Yeats Quotes
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
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You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.
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There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
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Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
