William Butler Yeats Quotes
Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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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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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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To dwell is to garden.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
