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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People want security in this insecure world.
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My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
