Seamus Heaney Quotes
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
