Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!
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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
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At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.
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There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
