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'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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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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It the city Berlin stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs.
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
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You’re not as cold as you pretend to be,’ she said. ‘I think your doors open in different places, that’s all. Most people just don’t know how to get in to you. They knock and they knock where the door is supposed to be, but it’s a blank wall. But you’re there. I’ve watched you. I’ve seen you do some awfully cold things warmly and some warm things coldly. Or does that make sense?
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The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
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Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
