Seamus Heaney Quotes
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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I'm really funny now.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
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The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.
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I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.
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I change my thoughts, I change my world.
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
