Marcus Aurelius Quotes
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Life is like an analogy.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
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Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.
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Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.
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Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
