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Seamus Heaney Quotes

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Duty Panic Last Stuff

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

Jennifer Garner

Still Like Argue

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

Vision Best You Know Sometimes Want

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

Matthew Simpson

History Men Past World Personal

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

Son War People You Flag Ancestors

The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

Me Hotel Bad Cards Nice Worst

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

Game Way Ball Shooting Own Shoot

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Family School Society Become Steady

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

Mistake City Doors Singapore Would

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

Time Control Think Driving Feelings

There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Smile Beautiful People World Eye

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Time Start Impossible Chance Slow

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Death Thinking Language New Way Old

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