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.
Hannah Kent -
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit -
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Patricia Briggs -
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.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim The xx -
'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.'
Jack Wagner
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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.
Tammy Blanchard -
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid -
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.
Umberto Guidoni -
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
Wang Jianlin -
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson -
I love design.
Venus Williams
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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.
Samantha Power -
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
Caleb Cushing -
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
F. Sionil Jose -
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden -
I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
Abigail Disney -
There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius -
Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
X. J. Kennedy -
Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.
Dan Barker -
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor -
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
Seneca the Younger