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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The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
