William Butler Yeats Quotes
May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
