Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
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Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
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Art should not be an easy thing.
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My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
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Network presidents love to take shots at each other, but they've never been so vocal as they were this summer.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
