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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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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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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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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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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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
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In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
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Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
