Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
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I really like cable T.V.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
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I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.
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Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
