Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
