William Butler Yeats Quotes
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Fate is what Heaven imparts.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
