Sophocles Quotes
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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What you are comes to you.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
