Sophocles Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
Raekwon -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion -
For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
Laura Harring
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Zhang Ziyi -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon -
As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton -
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna -
The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.
Palmer Luckey -
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
Gabriel Iglesias
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop -
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato -
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
Albert Einstein -
For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.
David Oyelowo -
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Sophocles