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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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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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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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.
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[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.
