Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the Younger
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
A. N. Wilson
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
Gary Ross
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
Gamaliel Bailey
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
Felicity Jones
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
Jack Ma
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
Eddie Murphy
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.
David Morse
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I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.
David Morse
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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Jesse Eisenberg
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the Younger
