Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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My friends are my family.
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What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.
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Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.
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When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
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I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.
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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
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I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.
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The world is not for cowardly peoples.
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We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.
