Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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Act because you love to act.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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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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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.
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My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
