Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
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I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can't have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
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I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
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I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
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The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?
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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
