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 sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
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But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.
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Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
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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.
