Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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And almost every one when age,Disease, or sorrows strike him,Inclines to think there is a God,Or something very like Him.
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Why should I be my aunt,or me, or anyone?What similaritiesboots, hands, the family voiceI felt in my throat, or eventhe National Geographicand those awful hanging breastsheld us all togetheror made us all just one?
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It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
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If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself-even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
