Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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When I eat better, I perform better.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
