Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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The team with the best players wins.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
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Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: 'if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it.' We didn't understand how good we could get at communication - when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it.
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If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
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Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
