Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.
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We all owe America. It's not the other way around.
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We are the echo of the future.
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When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
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I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
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Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.
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We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
