Epictetus Quotes
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
