Seamus Heaney Quotes

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkFamilyFarmEarlyKindStatus

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.

Joel Grey

HappinessRespectJobSafetyLoved

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

Andre Braugher

FunDoingYouSameGuyAgain

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Michael Chabon

LoveTimeKeep GoingFireMeBack

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

Torrey Smith

BelieveStandValuesI Believe

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Ronald Reagan

LovePatriotismCountryOurShould

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

Michael Redhill

LifeTimeMeReachSomeonePossible

Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.

Luke Macfarlane

LoveMarriagePeopleGayTwo People

You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

DayPeopleMeYouWantNever

Without God and the strong heart that I have, I wouldn't be able to make it.

Jason Pierre-Paul

GodHeartStrongWithoutMakeAble

Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.

Jonathan Van Ness

ExpensiveGorgeous

I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.

Jonathan Franklin

BetterKnowNationLivedThanChile

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Dom DeLuise

PeopleAmbitionThinkPersonOkay

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