Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
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For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.
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It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
