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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Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
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I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
