“It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.” Quote by Sigourney Weaver
“I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.” ThinkingKnowsKindChildrenLossOur ChildrenIllnessTouched Author:Sigourney Weaver
“Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.” WritingHas BeensLinesCreativeTeachingClassroomParallelsCreative WorkParallel Lines Author:Adam Kirsch
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.” WayTurnsThreeReadingFoundLinesTeachingMiddleExampleFieldsPoetSpeechBeatsPaidAppreciationExcitedDrivingHandleTrafficAnimatedRelishCasualtiesAndrewButlersSyntaxYeats Author:Adam Kirsch
“My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.” ReadingTeachingPoetExcitedAnimated Author:Seamus Heaney
“I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.” TeachingMissingMy Time Author:Seamus Heaney
“When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.” MindClassTeachingAnxietyAnxiousOf My Mind Author:Seamus Heaney
“Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.” MadeEnoughJobsFeltSafeAnticipationTense Author:Seamus Heaney
“Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.” WritingDoneHomeWonderfulConditionsHarvard Author:Seamus Heaney
“The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.” YearsSelfSupportEconomicMonthsIntellectualSafetyEightHarvardAppointments Author:Seamus Heaney
“Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.” FirstsMadeUseHomeSpiritHouseStudySeeingMetsLibraryIncludingCirclesFacultyBobFrankGuardianHarvardHelenDublinCircle Of FriendsEngels Author:Seamus Heaney