Persius Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.
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I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us.
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If he's worried about this he would have retired five years ago.
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Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
