Sophocles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
