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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What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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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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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
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Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.
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The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
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It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.”
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
