Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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I grew up on films.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
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To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
