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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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 said to one of them, 'Look after the baby, I've got washing,' because we've got washable nappies. I said, 'Look after the baby. Entertain her, do some words,' because she's saying words, 'Do any words.' So I came back after I scraped all the stuff off, and he was going, 'Say, ‘Wigan Athletic!’'
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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"World War III, was the Cold War".
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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
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We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
