Seamus Heaney Quotes
The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
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I've directed independent film.
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The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
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I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do.
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As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.
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The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
