Sophocles Quotes
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
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Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
