Seamus Heaney Quotes

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

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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For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.

Andrea Anders

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When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

Robert Lepage

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That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

Michael Connelly

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We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

Trisha Goddard

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What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

Tracy Kidder

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I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.

Rob Cohen

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Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

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It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

Roy Price

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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Michael Kinsley

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I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

Josh Silver

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In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.

Jonathan Van Ness

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The thing with focus is that it's not this thing you aspire to, like, 'Oh, on Monday I'm going to be focused.' It's every single minute: 'Why are we talking about this when we're supposed to be talking about this?'

Jonathan Ive

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