William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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We are working on the basis it is a kidnapping.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
