Seamus Heaney Quotes

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Jesmyn Ward

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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

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You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

Michael Cudlitz

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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

Jason Dolley

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Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

Diego Costa

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My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

Christine Gregoire

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There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

Cobie Smulders

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Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

Cindy Gallop

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On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel.

Clare Balding

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