Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Habits change into character.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.