Sophocles Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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You have to be yourself.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.
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During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
