Seamus Heaney Quotes
Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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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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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
