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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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.
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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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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can't be anybody else. So what's the point of trying?
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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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!
