Plautus Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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I've always looked old for my age.
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Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
