Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
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Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
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Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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There is a rather huge ethical difference between electing surgery and being faced with transphobic condemnation and diagnoses. I would say that the greatest risk of mutilation that trans people have comes directly from transphobia.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
