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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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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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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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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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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I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.
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I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.
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In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
