Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
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I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.
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Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
