Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.
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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
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I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
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I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
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Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
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He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
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My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
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Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?
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One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
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If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
