Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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I don't read much of anything online.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
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Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.
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I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
