Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
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It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.
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We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
