Sophocles Quotes
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
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There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.
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In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.
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Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Evil gains work their punishment.
