Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.
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Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
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A dancing movie with Remo is something I would love to take up.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
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The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
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I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
