Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
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To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.
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I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.
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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.
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I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
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I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
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There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.
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People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
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I like to mix it up, but I do like a lot of '60s fashion. But I like to make it a bit more edgier, sometimes a bit more rockier, sometimes a bit more classic.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
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Any question you have, most likely someone else is having as well.
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When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.
