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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God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
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I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
