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 was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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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'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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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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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.
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Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
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When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.
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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
