Seamus Heaney Quotes
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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I'm not really into rap.
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
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I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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Being number two sucks.
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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
