Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.
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Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
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A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
