William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?
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When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
