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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Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
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No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
