Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
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If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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That's a point that I'm concerned about. But if you look at the core inflation rate, it's actually below wage increases.
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We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.
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I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
