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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#follow #get #go #into #lead

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#efforts #gives #meet #much #observations

We must be doing something to be happy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#doing #happy #must #something

I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock. ↗

— Anthony Head

#been #centre #couple #i #love

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#believed #get #had #i #i always

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny. ↗

— Lena Headey

#charming #comedy #directed #ensemble #funny

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#associated #i #joy #lift #moment

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium