Sophocles Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
