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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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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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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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
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Mr. Herschel … brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,' to which Herschel replied, 'It is quite possible.'
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
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Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
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He conquers who endures.
