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.Seamus Heaney
Quotes to Explore
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon -
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Taylor Lautner -
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
Bebe Rexha -
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
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.
Edmund White
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon -
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.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Valerie Bertinelli -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
Imelda Staunton -
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
Vanity
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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.
Naomi Wolf -
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Sally Mann -
They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
Edward Hopper -
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Paul Wellstone -
Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.
Chelsea Handler -
I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.
John Catsimatidis
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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
Antony Gormley -
Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
Diana Ross -
I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.
Jason Isbell -
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.
Seamus Heaney