Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
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My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.
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As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really.
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Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
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The peasant boy, who followed the coloured track of the rainbow, hoping to find the blue and charmed flower which springs where the arch touches earth, is wiser far than one who gives youth, genius, and time to literature.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
