Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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I am very worried about politicians who know that their countries are greatly benefiting financially and at the same time are saying that the European Union is not good for us. The message has to be coherent.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
