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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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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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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Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.
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I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...