Epictetus Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I'm not graceful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
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Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
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In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it - but men were different. A man like B - like Alfie, too - never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
