Plutarch Quotes
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, 'God forbid that it should ever befall me!'
Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
Mahershala Ali
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady Gaga
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
Gail Sheehy
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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
Jacque Fresco
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No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
Jacques Barzun
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
Alexander Pope
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Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.
Colin Farrell
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, 'God forbid that it should ever befall me!'
Plutarch