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 evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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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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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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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
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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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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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Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
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In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
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I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.
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I love Grimes.
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My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
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No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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Yoga is excellent! It not only keeps me healthy physically but mentally and spiritually also.
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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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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.
