Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
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Deus seu Natura
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Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
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I'm very nervous when I work in a film and very relaxed before a live audience. I like theater because it's more of an actor's medium. You can control your performance. In film you depend on the director to watch out for your ass, but in the theater you can take care of yourself.
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Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.
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God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
