Plautus Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
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I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
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Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
