Plautus Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...
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If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.
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You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
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I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
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Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.1
