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Seamus Heaney Quotes

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Face You Must Bang Like Encounter

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Guitar Play Write Just Songs Henry

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

People Stand Country Kind Oppression

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.

Stephen Rodrick

Good Sports You Television Possible

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Patience Problem You Find Know Out

I believe now the industry has seen a different side of me. They have seen me in advertisements, they have seen me act, and now they have seen me as an all-rounder, complete with my dancing ability.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Me Believe Now I Believe Dancing

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

Integrity Honesty You Mean How Far

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.

Music Job People Listening Doing

Had I been pushed like Colonel Parker pushed Elvis, had I been a white boy like Elvis, sure, it would have been different.

White Boy Different Sure Been Would

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

Time City Drive Missed Places First

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Family Money Basketball Enough Play

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Success History Time Start Think

If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.

Habit Start Exercise You Choice Up

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