Plato Quotes
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
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I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
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Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.
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I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
