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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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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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 very proud of my business career.
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Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
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If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.
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I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
