Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
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I hate downtime.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
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You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry - it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
