Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
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To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
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One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
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The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay
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...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
