William Butler Yeats Quotes
I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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We are working on the basis it is a kidnapping.
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I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
