Persius Quotes
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I am a journalist.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.
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So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
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For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta.
