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 want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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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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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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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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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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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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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
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Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
