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Seamus Heaney Quotes

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

Topics

Poetry Award Judging Solidarity Your

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

Life Alone Humor Being Alone Story

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Stephanie Sigman

Feel You Artist Passionate Connect

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

Steven Pinker

Success Business Competition Survival

I'm not high maintenance.

Sienna Miller

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

Travis Beacham

Moon You Look Years Whatever Just

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

Tom Cruise

Mistakes Make Yeah

Deadpool was introduced as a mercenary and a bounty hunter... because I was so crazy for Boba Fett when I was a kid.

Rob Liefeld

Crazy Kid Hunter Because Introduced

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Judith Butler

Mistake Law Think Media Important

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

Diana Rigg

Child Still Read

I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.

Chris Carmack

Love Night Warm Hollywood California

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Clarence Thomas

Black Think You White Angels Were

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

Anne Lamott

Mother Husband Name Someone Year