Socrates Quotes
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I really hate to write.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
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We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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In death, as in sleep, I am all things.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
