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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The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.
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But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.
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To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
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For we put the power in the people.
