Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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I love design.
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The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
