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Seamus Heaney Quotes

My passport's green.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Green Passport

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Learning Learn Crime Logistics Cops

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Happy Mind World Better Short Wish

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Failure Child Law Will Right Nation

Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship.

Relationship Trying Back Situation

Workplace romances - or even the illusion of a workplace romance - can carry many ramifications and consequences.

Consequences Illusion Workplace Carry

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Jonny Greenwood

Music Age People Disappointment Lot

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Life Father My Life Hand Land Him

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Christopher Hitchens

Life Father I Am Kind Race Become

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

More Barcelona Less Autobiographical

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

I Am Me Gun Walking Trying Find

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

School Pride American You Acting

If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.'

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Me Writing Present Feel You Will

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