Seamus Heaney Quotes
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
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I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.
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In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
