Epictetus Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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And yet it moves.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
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I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
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It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
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A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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God has entrusted me with myself.
