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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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
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It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.
