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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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But that citizens 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

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At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney

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Little Miss Sunshine snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you dont hold out huge hope for. – Greg Kinnear

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Well, Ive been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that theres no hope. – Thom Yorke

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Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting! – Andy Cohen

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasnt very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. – Mara Liasson

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