Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
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Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
