Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.
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The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.
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There will never be talking pictures.
