Plato Quotes
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.
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A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture - calmness - God's serene and perpetual presence.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
