Euripides Quotes
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
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Everything I loved became everything I've lost.
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My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.
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Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," Yossarian answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
