Plautus Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
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When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.
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Tina Fey is one of my heroes.
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I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
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I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.
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Each man reaps on his own farm.
