Sophocles Quotes
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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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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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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I am very conscious about picking my roles and make sure that they are different.
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I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
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I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
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If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
