Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
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I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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The press is our chief ideological weapon.
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What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
