Sophocles Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Those who were closest to Yeltsin behaved as if they were running the government.
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Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
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I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.
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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
