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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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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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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I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.
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In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
