Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
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The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.
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Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
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Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.
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I have stuff from 1979, 1980 in my collection. But I also have things from 2012. So I don't know if it's memorabilia as much as it is holding on to things that I find relevant that most people might not.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.
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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
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You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.
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I think the show is working. I think the character is growing on many levels. I think one thing that we're all discovering is that every season has impacted another, and the character has grown, and the character is allowed to carry with him what he has suffered the year before.
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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
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The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.
