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 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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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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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.
