Sophocles Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
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Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.
