Plautus Quotes
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
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If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
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I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
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If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
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Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.
