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Seamus Heaney Quotes

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live Age Light Death You Shades

There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.

John Benjamin Hickey

Good Day Amazing Crazy Documentary

Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

Jennifer Coolidge

College Me Year Ahead

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

Funny Business People Think Learn

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Change Future Believe Tools Crisis

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

Good Mind World Think Will Backyard

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

Little Influences Were Berry Chuck

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

Love Mother Alone Children Winner

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'

God Hope Think Doing Go Movies

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Mother Time Me Laugh Talking Down

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Life Work Fun Having Fun Think Lose

I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.

Journey Happy Think Find Earth Way

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Work Myself Wife Me Flying Reading

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