Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
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I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
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People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
