Seamus Heaney Quotes
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Quotes to Explore
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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 am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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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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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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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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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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I'm not really into rap.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I wash my face with glycolic acid, and then I put on coconut oil. I love coconut oil - coconut oil for everything. That's my pre-makeup routine. And then as far as makeup goes, I can't live without my bold brows and some eyeliner.
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In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
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All love – love of children, love of parents, love of God or life – comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
