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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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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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 started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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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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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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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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Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
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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.
