William Jay Quotes
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
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The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
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Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
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Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
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I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
