Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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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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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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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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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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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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We have the best government that money can buy.
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
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He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
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It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.
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My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
