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 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'm always going to love my father.
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I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
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The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.
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Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
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Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
