Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
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It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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It's an honor. It's tough enough just to make an All-Star team, but when you're able to be a starter, it just says a lot about being pretty much one of the faces of the NBA because the fans pick you.
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We have to be capable of facing such a number.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
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Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.
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I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
