Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
