Plato Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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'Power' usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how 'well rested' everyone looks... something that can't be said by the end of the season.
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I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
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I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.
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I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
