William Butler Yeats Quotes
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
