Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.
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I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
