William Butler Yeats Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.
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Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.
