Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.
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You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
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Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
