Publilius Syrus Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.
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We didn't have a lot of time to really prepare for a great chemistry. It was more instantaneous and instinctive. In the morning I went to Daniel Craig trailer and if I wanted to make some changes there was sort of a go between me and the director. It was good because Daniel is always like, "C'mon let's go for it. Let's fight for it!"
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Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
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As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
