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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When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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You will never catch me in a dress without a pair of Spanx and a bra.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
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He conquers who endures.
