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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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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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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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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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 really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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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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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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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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Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
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I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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Most things get steadily worse.
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
