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 true champion can adapt to anything.
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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 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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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.
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We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.
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But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.
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We pay based upon on ratings. As the audience grows, we pay more per ad.
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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!
