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.
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Dan Brown
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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.
Maisie Williams
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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.
Natasha Richardson
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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.
Kate Christensen
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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.
Pankaj Mishra
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
Walton Goggins
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We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
David Petraeus
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I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there. I don't live my life anymore that way.
Peggy Lipton
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You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
Marianne Williamson
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
Salma Hayek
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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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.
Marcus Aurelius