Plautus Quotes
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!
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Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, 'Will you touch my vagina...?' and she's like, 'What!?' and I'm like, 'That's what you're supposed to say.'
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A despotic power makes slaves.
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The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant, nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia; for he has only changed his abode, not his nature.
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He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.
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I miss everyone on 'Coronation Street,' but I don't miss playing Becky.
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There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
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Life's too short. We have to love each other.
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
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Sperat quidem animus : quo eveniat, diis in manu est
