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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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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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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Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
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I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
