Seamus Heaney Quotes
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
Quotes to Explore
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.
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Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
