William Butler Yeats Quotes
Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
Quotes to Explore
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
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New York Newsday said I was stealing from the black man, and I was failing at it whereas Michael Bolton was succeeding. So fuck 'em.
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Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
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It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.
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Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
