Socrates Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
