Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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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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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
