Seamus Heaney Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.
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The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
