William Butler Yeats Quotes
How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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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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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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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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But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
