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William Butler Yeats Quotes

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Topics

Art Think You Conscience Leave Arts

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Robert Griffin III

Life Politics Religion You Try Talk

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

Well Instruction Did Harmonica Tape

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

Girl Boy Two Always Kids Wanted

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

Youth World Arrogance You Young

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

People Rest Just Because Hollywood

The triathlon can be a very hard sport to train for. You see all the time when people try to improve - like their swim, for example: they train really hard for two to three weeks, and then when they go back to normal training, the swim goes back to where it was before.

Jonathan Brownlee

Time Training People You Back Train

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

Talent Learn Someone You Want Write

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

Culture Somewhere Pop Culture Far

I spend about a year between novels.

Year Between About Novels Spend

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Leader People Ring Voices Must Ear

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Time You Seeing Career Acting Crew

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Change Best Think Self Someone Your

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