Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
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My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.
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I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
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Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
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People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
