Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I'm not graceful.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.
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I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
