Euripides Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Africa is the future.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.
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To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
