William Butler Yeats Quotes
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I wake up every day doing what I love to do. I love to play basketball.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
