Seamus Heaney Quotes
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
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Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.
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There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
