Euripides Quotes
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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Bullies always have another target.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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I think abortion is murder.
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It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
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Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
