William Butler Yeats Quotes
The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
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I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
