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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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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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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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.
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I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
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I'm pretty much a chocolate guy. I'm up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
