Persius Quotes
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
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Birth was the death of him.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
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Live, for I love you!
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No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.
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Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
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Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.
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I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
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He conquers who endures.
