Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances
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What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
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Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
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When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
