Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
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Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
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Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
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The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
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I always seem to be reading several books at once.
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I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
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My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
