Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.Marcus Aurelius
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
Patricia MacLachlan -
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
Kangana Ranaut -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson -
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh -
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
Hansika Motwani -
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell -
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
L. Neil Smith -
I love badminton. That's my sport!
Olga Kurylenko -
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Yoko Ono -
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
Walton Goggins -
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
Lisa Tuttle -
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius -
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
Lance Reddick -
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
Jack Dangermond -
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
Marcus Aurelius